The Matt Walsh Show - August 02, 2023


Daily Wire Backstage: Barbiegate and other Kenspiracies.


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 23 minutes

Words per Minute

222.01653

Word Count

18,429

Sentence Count

942

Misogynist Sentences

83

Hate Speech Sentences

58


Summary

Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and Matt Walsh discuss the latest batch of indictments against Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, and Julian Zelizer, and the fact that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still alive and well.


Transcript

00:00:00.120 Hey everybody, this is Matt Walsh. Drop everything you're doing and check out the latest episode of Daily Wire Backstage.
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00:01:04.300 We've got a lot. Man, do we have a lot to talk about tonight.
00:01:07.220 We've obviously got to talk about Barbie, the most important issue.
00:01:09.480 We've got to talk about Hunter Biden. We've got to talk about 2024.
00:01:12.540 We've got a big member block. Don't forget, all of this is because of you.
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00:01:19.760 Go on over to dailywire.com. Subscribe. You can still do it. Become a member.
00:01:24.620 And then we will chat with you in the member block after the public part of the show.
00:01:28.480 Then we can get into all the really juicy stuff.
00:01:30.460 We have some breaking news right now.
00:01:32.200 The breaking news, of course, is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
00:01:39.380 The man has not bitten the dog.
00:01:42.340 It's Groundhog Day again.
00:01:44.260 And Donald Trump has been indicted a few more times, I guess, for something.
00:01:50.260 I don't know. He put too much mayonnaise on his sandwich.
00:01:52.580 He's indicted for that.
00:01:53.240 Littering. Littering.
00:01:53.900 Has anybody read the latest indictment?
00:01:56.180 This just happened.
00:01:57.400 Mr. Shapiro, what is it this time?
00:02:00.000 So this is the January 6th indictment.
00:02:01.980 The long-awaited January 6th indictment.
00:02:03.900 They're charging him on four counts.
00:02:06.560 These are real stretches.
00:02:08.020 I mean, on the legal basis, these are very, very large legal stretches.
00:02:12.920 They're charging him on a conspiracy to defraud the government.
00:02:16.640 Typically, that means financially defrauding the government.
00:02:18.460 Like, if you try to steal money from the federal government,
00:02:20.240 they're claiming that that extends to trying to affect election processes,
00:02:24.720 which is a real stretch and going to be very difficult to fulfill by the elements of the law.
00:02:28.180 They're charging him with obstruction of justice,
00:02:30.120 suggesting that he tried to interfere with an official government proceeding.
00:02:32.680 Again, that's going to be a bit of a stretch because it's going to be hard to show
00:02:36.040 that he actively attempted to overthrow the election
00:02:39.760 rather than exercising his free speech rights in pursuit of a specious legal theory.
00:02:43.500 That's going to be the defense.
00:02:44.300 The defense is going to be,
00:02:45.500 I honestly thought that this legal theory might be good,
00:02:47.540 and I'm allowed to pursue that because this is still America,
00:02:49.580 and you don't get to prosecute me for that.
00:02:51.620 He's being charged also with civil rights violations.
00:02:54.880 The idea here is that he is attempting to essentially have votes thrown out.
00:03:00.780 So usually this charge is brought when you literally stuff a ballot box
00:03:04.120 or you take a box of ballots and you throw them in the river
00:03:06.660 or dead people vote in 1960 and make John F. Kennedy president.
00:03:09.260 You put them in a locker in Michigan.
00:03:10.840 Yeah.
00:03:11.040 Yeah, exactly.
00:03:11.700 Well, you do those sorts of things.
00:03:12.800 That's where this is charged.
00:03:14.000 Usually doesn't apply there.
00:03:15.260 And then there's a fourth charge that is, again, related to the idea
00:03:18.440 that he put together false slates of electors and then attempted to submit that.
00:03:22.800 The difficulty in proving any of these cases is multifold.
00:03:26.600 The first one is that as an element of the case,
00:03:28.640 and virtually all of these things is intent,
00:03:30.340 you have to prove somehow that Donald Trump knew for a fact that he had lost the election,
00:03:34.000 and thus all subsequent efforts were not dedicated toward attempting
00:03:37.620 to preserve his purported election victory,
00:03:40.600 but actively were an attempt to subvert a thing that he knew was not true.
00:03:43.520 Well, as I've said, the problem with Trump is that trying to establish intent crimes
00:03:47.380 with Trump is incredibly difficult because Donald Trump actually believes the thing
00:03:50.900 that he is saying at any given moment.
00:03:52.080 So it is quite plausible that that night he thought he had lost,
00:03:54.260 and by the next morning he thought that he had won.
00:03:55.920 That sort of thing is not unusual with Trump ever.
00:03:58.160 I mean, we all know this.
00:03:59.520 We've seen him switch in real time his positions and believe it both times.
00:04:02.800 So intent crimes are very, very difficult to charge with Donald Trump.
00:04:06.020 Again, the charges in law are a large-scale stretch.
00:04:09.360 January 6th gets mentioned multiple times here.
00:04:11.160 But, again, the defense there is going to be,
00:04:13.900 I didn't tell people to invade the Capitol building.
00:04:15.520 I told them to peacefully protest at the Capitol building.
00:04:18.080 You may be angry at me that I didn't tell them to get out,
00:04:20.260 but I didn't make them go in in the first place.
00:04:22.900 So that doesn't actually count as a conspiracy.
00:04:24.500 You've shown no actual proof that I told the Oath Keepers to go in
00:04:27.360 and attempt to overthrow the election.
00:04:29.580 You can blame me for being inflammatory,
00:04:32.260 but inflammatory is not prosecutable.
00:04:34.100 So that's going to be his defense.
00:04:35.980 And, again, I believe this thing is being charged in front of a federal judge
00:04:40.380 appointed by Barack Obama,
00:04:41.720 which means presumably a very unfriendly federal judge.
00:04:44.300 I'm not sure which district this is being charged in, actually.
00:04:47.480 I have to look that up real fast.
00:04:49.700 It looks like it is being charged in D.C.
00:04:52.140 So, obviously, that means that he's at a real disadvantage in this case
00:04:55.240 because a D.C. jury is going to be a lot less friendly to him
00:04:57.320 than, say, a Florida jury would be.
00:04:59.260 And that's basically what I assume Jack Smith is counting on here.
00:05:01.840 So then the question becomes how long the trial actually takes.
00:05:04.240 When does the trial actually begin?
00:05:05.680 He's going to be able to make the case,
00:05:06.720 and I think it's a pretty solid case,
00:05:08.000 but it should be delayed until after the election.
00:05:09.420 The reason that he's going to be able to say that
00:05:10.720 is he's going to say,
00:05:11.520 listen, I have at least two major ongoing legal cases.
00:05:14.280 I have the Manhattan DA's case, right,
00:05:15.600 which is, again, that one is complete BS.
00:05:17.540 And then I also have the classified documents case
00:05:20.160 being charged by Jack Smith down in Florida,
00:05:22.420 and I'm probably going to get indicted in Georgia.
00:05:24.200 And how do you expect me to simultaneously perform four defenses
00:05:27.100 in the space of 12 months?
00:05:28.840 You can't.
00:05:29.340 So really what you should do is you should delay this trial
00:05:31.420 until after the election.
00:05:32.760 We already know that the Florida trial is likely to begin
00:05:35.040 sometime in the middle of next year,
00:05:36.240 right in the middle of the election cycle.
00:05:37.740 I think the date was set for May 20th.
00:05:39.260 I think that's right.
00:05:39.900 So that means that you'll probably get a verdict in that trial
00:05:42.380 pretty quickly.
00:05:44.080 I would imagine that that case is, to me,
00:05:46.620 that's the most dangerous case to Trump.
00:05:47.800 Of the indictments that have come down so far,
00:05:49.600 clearly the classified documents one
00:05:51.000 is the most dangerous case to Trump on a legal level.
00:05:53.140 Even though it's happening in Florida,
00:05:54.260 which is red state,
00:05:55.080 and it's a Trump judge who's presiding over it.
00:05:57.520 Yes, but the Trump judge is still a judge.
00:05:59.560 He had the documents, right.
00:06:01.100 Right, exactly.
00:06:01.720 I mean, the biggest problem for Trump
00:06:02.880 is if you're going to do the criming,
00:06:03.880 don't do the criming on tape, right?
00:06:05.440 Like, that's the first rule of criming.
00:06:07.100 Don't do crime on tape.
00:06:07.960 It's just, you know, as your lawyer, folks,
00:06:10.160 don't do the crime on the tape.
00:06:11.600 It's just a bad idea.
00:06:12.640 So that's the big problem for Trump.
00:06:15.220 He's going to make the case essentially to the jury
00:06:17.000 in that case for jury nullification.
00:06:18.460 He's going to say,
00:06:19.080 this shouldn't have been charged,
00:06:20.080 not because I didn't do it.
00:06:21.280 It shouldn't be charged
00:06:21.860 because I wasn't risking national security
00:06:23.320 and because they didn't charge Hillary Clinton.
00:06:24.660 And it's unfair that Hillary gets to skate
00:06:26.520 and I'm going to get charged for all of this.
00:06:28.320 And it's obviously political.
00:06:29.140 They're trying to stop me in the middle of an election cycle.
00:06:31.120 So that's kind of where things stand,
00:06:33.120 legally speaking, right now.
00:06:34.900 Where do you rank?
00:06:35.680 So the D.C. indictment,
00:06:37.160 out of all Trump's 500 indictments
00:06:40.240 and coming indictments,
00:06:41.860 in terms of risk to him,
00:06:43.260 where do you rank the D.C. indictment?
00:06:44.580 I would rank this one at number two.
00:06:47.720 I think the Florida's the riskiest one
00:06:49.020 because I think the New York one
00:06:50.720 is not particularly risky.
00:06:51.580 I think even a New York jury
00:06:52.540 is going to have a real tough time
00:06:53.820 finding Donald Trump in violation
00:06:55.320 of a state campaign finance law
00:06:57.760 that's connected to a federal campaign
00:06:59.080 and finance law
00:06:59.780 that's connected to a payoff
00:07:00.680 he made to Stormy Daniels in 2015.
00:07:02.180 Which would effectively be
00:07:03.460 an in-kind contribution
00:07:05.240 to his own campaign.
00:07:06.920 Yes.
00:07:07.200 I mean, again,
00:07:07.720 I think that one's real tough.
00:07:08.900 So I think that one's super weak.
00:07:10.460 I think that the Georgia case
00:07:12.100 is going to be about as strong
00:07:13.540 as the D.C. case
00:07:14.420 because it's a very similar case.
00:07:15.940 It's going to be basically
00:07:16.640 very similar charges,
00:07:17.540 but on a state level
00:07:18.500 with regard to him
00:07:19.260 pressuring Brad Raffensperger
00:07:20.420 to supposedly shift votes,
00:07:22.640 although his defense
00:07:23.620 is going to be in that case.
00:07:24.740 I wasn't telling him to shift votes.
00:07:25.820 I was saying,
00:07:26.320 I know that there's fraud.
00:07:27.220 All I need
00:07:27.800 is this number of votes to win.
00:07:29.460 I certainly know
00:07:30.020 there's been more fraud than that.
00:07:31.000 So you're telling me
00:07:31.460 you can't find that number of votes
00:07:32.580 that are fraudulent?
00:07:33.240 Right?
00:07:33.400 That's what he's going to say.
00:07:34.920 So that seems to me
00:07:35.760 like a fairly solid defense, actually,
00:07:37.460 because again,
00:07:37.720 it goes to intent.
00:07:39.020 It's also in Georgia.
00:07:39.940 It depends where in Georgia
00:07:40.940 it's held.
00:07:41.520 If it's held in Fulton County,
00:07:42.340 it looks a lot like D.C.
00:07:43.180 So those kind of tie for a second.
00:07:44.680 Again, I think the most dangerous
00:07:45.440 indictment for him
00:07:46.180 remains the classified documents case
00:07:47.700 because to me,
00:07:48.460 on an evidentiary level,
00:07:49.560 this is just putting
00:07:49.960 on my lawyer hat,
00:07:50.840 on an evidentiary level,
00:07:52.380 they almost have him
00:07:53.120 dead to rights on that one.
00:07:53.940 I mean, he literally said
00:07:55.560 on tape,
00:07:56.280 here is a classified document.
00:07:58.120 I could have declassified it
00:07:59.320 and I didn't declassify it.
00:08:00.700 Would you like to see
00:08:01.460 this document right now?
00:08:03.300 It's only,
00:08:03.760 it's always with Trump
00:08:04.560 the fact that they didn't do this.
00:08:06.040 Hillary Clinton did
00:08:06.700 virtually the same thing,
00:08:08.420 didn't have the right
00:08:09.520 of a president
00:08:10.040 to declassify the documents
00:08:11.420 and they didn't prosecute her
00:08:12.820 and said she was,
00:08:13.840 it wasn't intentional
00:08:15.000 when she actually
00:08:15.920 bleach bit her phone.
00:08:17.020 Right, and that's going
00:08:17.740 to be his defense.
00:08:18.380 That's going to be a defense.
00:08:19.040 His defense is going to be
00:08:20.000 that you didn't,
00:08:20.900 the reason you didn't go
00:08:21.500 after Hillary
00:08:21.840 is because you said
00:08:22.360 she didn't intend
00:08:22.920 to disseminate the documents
00:08:23.880 to foreign powers essentially.
00:08:25.220 There is no proof
00:08:25.960 or even implication
00:08:26.640 that I intend to disseminate
00:08:27.720 these documents
00:08:28.160 to foreign powers.
00:08:29.040 The most obvious explanation,
00:08:30.140 as I said,
00:08:30.520 literally the day
00:08:31.340 that this news broke
00:08:32.080 is that Donald Trump
00:08:33.060 likes things
00:08:33.600 and he decides to keep them.
00:08:35.140 Any attempt to complicate
00:08:36.660 Donald Trump
00:08:37.080 is always an exercise
00:08:38.380 in tomfoolery.
00:08:39.740 Whether it's intellectualizing
00:08:41.080 Trumpism as a coherent philosophy
00:08:43.680 or whether it's attempting
00:08:44.780 to determine
00:08:45.300 why the man kept
00:08:45.920 a box of documents
00:08:46.680 he should have given back
00:08:47.320 to the National Archives,
00:08:49.020 Occam's razor
00:08:49.540 always applied with Donald Trump.
00:08:50.580 The most simple explanation
00:08:51.860 is always true.
00:08:53.100 Donald Trump likes things
00:08:54.060 and so he keeps them.
00:08:55.120 The man literally kept
00:08:55.800 Israeli antiquities
00:08:56.640 just because he likes them.
00:08:58.220 His entire power
00:08:59.080 comes from the fact
00:08:59.860 that he is treated differently.
00:09:01.360 Like,
00:09:01.540 I would have had no objection
00:09:02.720 to the press
00:09:03.320 treating him
00:09:03.960 as badly as they did
00:09:05.360 if they also treated
00:09:06.300 Democrats the same way.
00:09:07.800 That's the way
00:09:08.340 I want them to treat
00:09:08.980 people in power.
00:09:09.660 The original sin
00:09:10.200 with regard to this case
00:09:11.060 is that Hillary Clinton
00:09:11.660 was not prosecuted.
00:09:12.800 Which, by the way,
00:09:13.260 is the reason Donald Trump
00:09:13.980 is being prosecuted.
00:09:14.920 Because he literally said
00:09:16.140 to his lawyers,
00:09:16.760 remember that thing Hillary
00:09:17.460 did over there?
00:09:18.080 Can you do that for me?
00:09:19.760 Which means that
00:09:20.200 if Hillary had been prosecuted
00:09:21.000 you know he wouldn't
00:09:21.540 have said that.
00:09:22.500 Right.
00:09:22.740 Right, so again.
00:09:23.660 And isn't there just
00:09:24.280 at a higher political level
00:09:26.040 getting out of the legal
00:09:26.980 minutiae here,
00:09:28.280 we, as a tradition in America,
00:09:30.640 don't imprison
00:09:31.480 former presidents
00:09:32.240 and we don't imprison
00:09:33.260 the leader of the opposition.
00:09:34.760 And regardless of,
00:09:36.360 okay,
00:09:36.520 he technically violated
00:09:37.580 the statute
00:09:38.160 with a documents case
00:09:39.060 or whatever.
00:09:39.560 You're making me
00:09:39.980 nostalgic.
00:09:40.720 I know.
00:09:41.300 I mean,
00:09:41.480 nostalgic for five years ago.
00:09:43.120 Isn't there just something
00:09:44.520 really banana republic-y
00:09:46.280 about arresting
00:09:47.460 the leader of the opposition?
00:09:48.140 This, by the way,
00:09:48.800 also is a case
00:09:50.300 that if Trump
00:09:50.800 were more articulate
00:09:51.700 he should be making.
00:09:52.820 We now know
00:09:53.640 because of the collapse
00:09:55.500 of Hunter Biden's
00:09:56.260 sweetheart deal,
00:09:57.060 we know the DOJ is corrupt.
00:09:58.500 Right.
00:09:58.680 We know it is corrupt
00:09:59.520 at their highest levels.
00:10:00.580 We saw it in court
00:10:01.640 where the guy
00:10:02.180 could not defend,
00:10:03.880 was obviously trying
00:10:04.740 to put something
00:10:05.220 past a judge
00:10:05.860 if they'd gotten
00:10:06.340 a friendly judge.
00:10:07.240 She might have overlooked it
00:10:08.180 but in fact she saw
00:10:09.180 that it was being put past her.
00:10:11.120 We know they're corrupt now.
00:10:12.320 And I think that that's
00:10:13.700 a case that I would be making
00:10:15.700 on the stand.
00:10:16.220 Well, he is going
00:10:17.120 to be making that case
00:10:17.780 and that is going
00:10:18.400 to be his strongest case.
00:10:19.100 If he can enunciate it.
00:10:20.060 The thing that is going
00:10:21.560 to Trump's benefit
00:10:22.400 is the fact
00:10:23.640 that the Biden DOJ
00:10:25.020 is so obviously
00:10:26.000 and clearly corrupt.
00:10:27.040 I mean,
00:10:27.400 the Biden sweetheart deal,
00:10:29.520 for folks who didn't watch
00:10:30.440 what actually happened here,
00:10:31.660 there's a pretty simple way
00:10:32.840 to understand this.
00:10:34.360 Hunter Biden was charged
00:10:35.240 with two sets of crimes.
00:10:36.260 One was financial crimes,
00:10:37.640 tax fraud.
00:10:38.300 The other,
00:10:39.140 and he pled guilty
00:10:39.940 to misdemeanors.
00:10:40.800 And the other
00:10:41.460 was the gun charge.
00:10:42.640 In the financial crimes,
00:10:44.120 there was nothing in there
00:10:44.920 that said we waive
00:10:45.520 all future charges
00:10:46.280 on financial crimes.
00:10:47.300 Nothing like that.
00:10:48.280 It said nothing about that.
00:10:49.760 In the gun crime case,
00:10:51.580 which ended up being diverted,
00:10:53.660 he ended up saying no charges,
00:10:54.980 you get to go to drug rehab
00:10:55.980 or whatever.
00:10:56.520 It said in there,
00:10:57.860 in exchange for this,
00:10:59.180 anything that's mentioned
00:10:59.940 in the financial crimes case,
00:11:01.460 we will now waive.
00:11:02.760 And so it was clear
00:11:03.440 that the DOJ
00:11:04.240 was attempting
00:11:04.740 to waive the crimes
00:11:05.540 that foreign agents
00:11:07.240 all of the crimes,
00:11:08.520 everything.
00:11:09.060 And so the defense
00:11:09.520 thought that was the case,
00:11:10.280 which is why they were
00:11:10.780 signing on to the plea deal
00:11:11.500 in the first place.
00:11:12.060 And the DOJ thought
00:11:12.900 that was the case,
00:11:13.420 but they didn't want the judge
00:11:14.120 to know that was the case
00:11:14.720 because it's so obviously corrupt.
00:11:15.820 It gets in front of the judge.
00:11:16.820 The judge looks at this
00:11:17.480 and says,
00:11:17.780 hold up.
00:11:18.280 So it's not in the charging document
00:11:19.720 that you're actually giving me
00:11:20.640 that you want me to sign off on.
00:11:21.820 It's in this other document
00:11:22.500 I have no actual jurisdiction over.
00:11:24.680 And I'm supposed to apply
00:11:25.200 that document to this.
00:11:25.920 You're clearly attempting
00:11:26.900 to lie to the American people
00:11:28.980 by putting the sweetheart deal
00:11:30.740 in a document
00:11:31.240 that is not available publicly.
00:11:32.600 At that point,
00:11:33.300 the DOJ was so embarrassed
00:11:34.520 by the public disclosure of this
00:11:36.300 that they immediately say,
00:11:37.200 no, no, no,
00:11:37.460 we didn't mean that at all.
00:11:38.600 None of this is real.
00:11:39.420 And Hunter Biden's attorney goes,
00:11:40.520 wait, if it's not real,
00:11:41.120 we have no deal.
00:11:41.700 And the whole thing blows up, right?
00:11:42.920 So what happened here
00:11:44.340 is a pretty textbook case
00:11:46.160 of the DOJ
00:11:47.100 at Merrick Garland's direction,
00:11:48.520 because that's how this happens,
00:11:49.580 which means at Joe Biden's direction,
00:11:51.220 attempting to let Hunter Biden
00:11:52.500 off the hook
00:11:53.240 for a wide variety of crimes,
00:11:54.680 which, again,
00:11:55.700 that is getting worse for Joe Biden.
00:11:57.400 I mean, all that,
00:11:58.160 the Hunter Biden stuff
00:11:58.800 is going to get worse.
00:11:59.540 It's, it's, it's.
00:12:00.460 So, so let's say
00:12:01.320 they put Trump in prison.
00:12:02.540 Let's say one of the 7,000 indictments
00:12:04.100 actually sticks.
00:12:05.480 Worth remembering,
00:12:07.020 we have had people run for president
00:12:08.820 from prison before.
00:12:10.180 Eugene Debs got 8% of the vote.
00:12:12.140 He was a socialist,
00:12:13.400 so very much out of the mainstream
00:12:15.120 of the American political tradition.
00:12:16.640 He still got 8% of the vote
00:12:17.780 when he was sitting in the can.
00:12:19.960 As far as I know,
00:12:21.220 there's no extra special rule
00:12:22.800 and restriction
00:12:23.340 on how you can run for president.
00:12:24.640 The Constitution lays it out.
00:12:26.200 Even if the guy's wearing
00:12:27.040 an orange jumpsuit,
00:12:28.140 Donald Trump could run
00:12:29.020 for president from prison.
00:12:30.320 He could win the presidency
00:12:31.400 from prison,
00:12:32.260 and it would probably help him
00:12:33.400 if he's sitting there.
00:12:34.460 I think, I think it would help him,
00:12:36.020 but I, I actually think
00:12:37.080 he would get the exact
00:12:37.960 same amount of votes.
00:12:39.180 I think at this point,
00:12:40.680 they, they are,
00:12:41.600 they're playing a psyop on us.
00:12:43.300 The Democrats are actually
00:12:44.280 playing a psyop,
00:12:45.080 which is that they know
00:12:45.980 the more they persecute him,
00:12:47.260 the more his base will stick.
00:12:48.940 And, and the less popular
00:12:51.240 he will be among independents
00:12:52.880 and the people
00:12:53.280 who actually decide the election.
00:12:54.660 I mean, I, I totally agree
00:12:55.680 with that, Matt.
00:12:56.100 I also think that nothing,
00:12:58.840 we now live in the era
00:12:59.820 of nothing matters.
00:13:00.640 And truly nothing matters
00:13:01.900 except for the turnout numbers
00:13:02.920 in 2024.
00:13:03.740 That's the entire game here,
00:13:05.220 right?
00:13:05.340 If Biden gets low turnout,
00:13:06.340 Trump could win
00:13:06.780 even under those circumstances.
00:13:07.740 Well, you know,
00:13:08.080 I've long said, Ben,
00:13:09.240 and I learned this
00:13:10.160 from Mitch Daniels,
00:13:11.080 former governor of Indiana.
00:13:12.260 There are two ways
00:13:12.780 to beat the left.
00:13:13.680 You can either out argue them
00:13:15.080 or you can out breed them.
00:13:16.760 And when you want to talk
00:13:17.680 about the next generation
00:13:18.500 of Americans,
00:13:18.980 this is real
00:13:19.700 and happening now, folks.
00:13:22.140 The pro-life movement
00:13:23.280 is scoring all sorts
00:13:24.180 of victories.
00:13:25.060 But did you know
00:13:25.500 the abortion pill
00:13:26.140 accounts for over half
00:13:27.220 of the abortions
00:13:27.840 committed in this country?
00:13:29.120 More than 1,000 pre-born children
00:13:31.060 die at the hand
00:13:32.500 of this poison
00:13:33.180 every single day.
00:13:34.200 Pre-born is the organization
00:13:35.680 providing a solution
00:13:36.700 to that devastating situation.
00:13:38.940 Women are being fed
00:13:39.840 the abortion pill
00:13:40.580 and led to believe
00:13:41.700 that it's an easy
00:13:42.500 and safe way
00:13:43.360 to terminate
00:13:44.560 an unwanted pregnancy
00:13:45.740 or whatever euphemisms
00:13:46.580 they use.
00:13:47.320 But they are not being told
00:13:48.780 the truth
00:13:49.520 about the harmful side effects
00:13:50.860 and, of course,
00:13:51.640 the emotional trauma
00:13:52.500 left behind.
00:13:53.480 This is a heartbreaking reality
00:13:54.900 that needs to be addressed.
00:13:56.540 Pre-born network clinics
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00:13:59.380 offering love, hope,
00:14:00.640 and an abortion reversal pill,
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00:14:35.880 And we're talking
00:14:36.560 about the babies
00:14:37.300 and the sweet babies
00:14:38.180 and the daddy
00:14:38.720 and everything.
00:14:39.240 I know we have to get to this
00:14:40.140 because it's here
00:14:40.560 on my schedule.
00:14:41.180 And I'm just,
00:14:42.000 actually,
00:14:42.280 before we get to this,
00:14:43.040 I'm going to take my phone
00:14:43.820 out right now.
00:14:44.660 And I'm going to set a timer.
00:14:45.960 I'm going to set a timer.
00:14:46.840 Let's do it.
00:14:47.360 I don't,
00:14:48.000 I can't,
00:14:48.900 I'm going to set a timer
00:14:50.360 for six minutes.
00:14:51.980 Oh,
00:14:52.240 I was hoping,
00:14:52.760 more like 90 seconds.
00:14:54.380 Here we go.
00:14:55.200 This is,
00:14:55.700 I'm being very generous
00:14:56.800 here with the timer.
00:14:57.360 16,
00:14:57.540 add a one to that.
00:14:58.540 Because,
00:14:59.300 because,
00:15:01.020 this stupid nonsense,
00:15:02.640 forget about the indictments,
00:15:03.480 the stupid nonsense
00:15:04.420 going on at Capitol Hill
00:15:05.960 with the UFO hearings
00:15:08.380 and the friend of a friend
00:15:10.200 of somebody's cousin
00:15:11.180 saw a little glimmer
00:15:12.400 of light in the sky.
00:15:13.360 Oh,
00:15:13.460 you mean the historic hearings
00:15:14.480 that I've never had?
00:15:14.740 Okay,
00:15:15.060 I'm clicking start.
00:15:16.100 Here we go.
00:15:16.780 Six minutes.
00:15:18.680 Matt,
00:15:19.020 do you have any thoughts?
00:15:20.640 I have more thoughts
00:15:21.900 than can fit in
00:15:22.280 in six minutes.
00:15:22.840 I feel like I'm
00:15:23.160 at a disadvantage here.
00:15:24.700 I think the main point,
00:15:26.220 first of all,
00:15:26.680 as I've tried to explain
00:15:27.420 to Ben when I destroyed him
00:15:28.360 in this debate
00:15:29.080 a couple days ago,
00:15:31.000 is that if you go into this
00:15:32.620 already having decided
00:15:33.980 as at least two of the people
00:15:35.180 in this room have
00:15:35.620 that you're not willing
00:15:36.640 to listen to the evidence
00:15:37.400 and no evidence
00:15:37.880 could possibly convince you
00:15:38.740 because you are committed
00:15:40.840 ahead of time
00:15:41.480 to the proposition
00:15:42.160 that aliens have never visited
00:15:43.300 or that they don't even exist.
00:15:45.140 They don't exist.
00:15:45.700 Which is Michael's absurd idea.
00:15:47.260 Then,
00:15:47.640 of course,
00:15:47.860 you're not going to be convinced
00:15:48.340 by this.
00:15:48.740 But,
00:15:49.200 if you are open-minded
00:15:50.460 as I am
00:15:51.980 and I think I'm...
00:15:52.640 On all things.
00:15:53.480 I'm very known
00:15:54.320 to be open-minded.
00:15:55.300 Absolutely.
00:15:56.040 Then I think you listen
00:15:57.820 and what do we have?
00:15:58.940 We have dot,
00:16:00.380 we have documentation,
00:16:01.380 we have photographs,
00:16:02.180 we have video
00:16:02.720 of these crafts in the sky.
00:16:04.760 A little blurry.
00:16:05.300 We have expert eyewitness testimony.
00:16:08.060 I don't just mean
00:16:08.640 the people that are
00:16:09.200 testifying in Congress.
00:16:10.040 I mean Navy pilots
00:16:11.320 who are actual experts.
00:16:13.320 Okay,
00:16:13.520 I'll tell you what,
00:16:13.880 I'll buttress your
00:16:14.780 ridiculous point of view.
00:16:17.140 Nancy Mace
00:16:17.780 and other Republicans
00:16:18.520 were interviewing
00:16:18.960 some of these people
00:16:19.500 who say that they have
00:16:20.980 first-hand knowledge
00:16:22.320 of these vehicles crashing
00:16:25.640 and even potential life forms
00:16:28.040 being found on it.
00:16:29.200 Take it away.
00:16:30.380 If you believe
00:16:31.940 we have crashed craft,
00:16:33.680 stated earlier,
00:16:34.820 do we have the bodies
00:16:35.700 of the pilots
00:16:36.400 who piloted this craft?
00:16:38.620 As I've stated publicly already
00:16:40.120 in my News Nation interview,
00:16:41.640 biologics came
00:16:42.680 with some of these recoveries.
00:16:44.180 Yeah.
00:16:46.780 Were they, I guess,
00:16:47.980 human or non-human biologics?
00:16:50.720 Non-human,
00:16:51.460 and that was the assessment
00:16:52.300 of people with direct knowledge
00:16:53.900 on the program I talked to
00:16:54.840 that are currently
00:16:55.400 still on the program.
00:16:56.840 Non-human?
00:16:57.400 What, you think they're raccoons?
00:16:58.660 Can I ask you about a word?
00:17:00.540 I pay attention to little words.
00:17:02.720 Have you ever heard
00:17:03.420 the word biologics
00:17:05.320 before in your life?
00:17:07.000 I've maybe heard it
00:17:07.780 in the context of medicine.
00:17:09.040 Occasionally,
00:17:09.460 it's a very precise word.
00:17:12.140 He's not saying
00:17:12.680 we pulled ET out of the craft.
00:17:14.500 What is a non-human biologic?
00:17:15.780 I don't know,
00:17:16.080 like an ant crawled into the...
00:17:17.340 It's so vague all the time.
00:17:19.860 Also, he hasn't seen anything.
00:17:21.960 He hasn't.
00:17:22.500 This guy has...
00:17:23.080 No, it's always like
00:17:24.100 my cousin's friend's buddy's nephew.
00:17:26.340 But this is...
00:17:26.840 No, hold on a second.
00:17:27.580 This is a guy...
00:17:28.540 This is what he does.
00:17:29.780 He's on...
00:17:31.140 You know, he's...
00:17:32.000 He works with the government.
00:17:32.960 He hasn't personally seen it.
00:17:35.480 He doesn't have to personally see all of it.
00:17:36.960 He's talked to people that have.
00:17:38.200 So, if that's all that we had,
00:17:40.020 then I would agree
00:17:40.820 that that's not very compelling.
00:17:41.740 But when you add...
00:17:42.500 So, we're just adding evidence
00:17:44.080 on top of evidence.
00:17:45.140 So, here's my question to...
00:17:47.440 You're anti-alien too, aren't you?
00:17:49.000 No, no.
00:17:49.540 No, no.
00:17:49.800 Oh, you're not?
00:17:50.040 Okay, good.
00:17:50.420 But I don't believe they're here,
00:17:52.220 but I believe they're...
00:17:52.800 Okay, well, then you're wrong also.
00:17:54.300 So, what we know
00:17:56.320 that there are these crafts in the sky
00:17:58.420 that are doing things
00:17:59.400 that defy the laws of physics.
00:18:00.840 We understand them.
00:18:01.500 We've seen them.
00:18:02.660 Okay, we can see the video.
00:18:05.040 What are they?
00:18:06.300 Okay, so...
00:18:07.720 Excellent question, Matt,
00:18:08.640 and I'm so glad you asked.
00:18:09.700 So, two points.
00:18:10.740 One, if evidence were presented
00:18:13.220 that were overwhelming in nature,
00:18:15.860 I would shift my opinion.
00:18:16.720 But these are outstanding allegations
00:18:18.800 that require outstanding evidence.
00:18:20.880 Okay?
00:18:21.360 Not all claims require equivalent evidence.
00:18:24.220 If I claim that I'm going to drink
00:18:25.220 from this cup of water,
00:18:26.000 the amount of evidence that it requires
00:18:27.180 to prove that claim is very small.
00:18:29.220 I would just have to drink
00:18:29.820 from this cup of water.
00:18:30.540 If I were to claim
00:18:31.260 that there is a massive dragon
00:18:33.220 just outside the door right here
00:18:35.120 who's about to eat you,
00:18:37.360 I would presumably have to now
00:18:38.580 provide you actual physical evidence
00:18:40.940 that that is a thing.
00:18:41.480 Because that's a pretty large-scale claim.
00:18:42.860 And we have the dragon, Ben.
00:18:43.980 We have the dragon.
00:18:44.700 Okay, so, aside from your claim
00:18:46.760 that we have the dragon,
00:18:48.120 aside from that,
00:18:49.180 the actual...
00:18:51.280 Let me ask you this.
00:18:52.380 Do you think that things...
00:18:53.300 You haven't answered the question.
00:18:54.080 Well, no, no.
00:18:54.580 So, in order for me
00:18:55.780 to answer the question,
00:18:56.340 I have to, as all Jews would,
00:18:57.740 ask a question, okay?
00:18:59.020 Which is,
00:18:59.660 do you think that there are things
00:19:01.100 that defy the laws of physics
00:19:02.420 in the physical universe?
00:19:04.180 Because that is the phraseology
00:19:05.160 you just used.
00:19:05.540 Well, I said that.
00:19:06.120 You just began by suggesting
00:19:07.500 that people have observed
00:19:08.540 craft in the sky
00:19:09.300 that seem to violate
00:19:10.320 the laws of physics.
00:19:11.280 So, let me ask you,
00:19:12.000 do you believe in the laws of physics?
00:19:13.380 Because if you actually believe
00:19:14.500 in the laws of physics,
00:19:15.520 that might suggest
00:19:16.080 that you now have two choices.
00:19:17.080 One, you have to believe
00:19:18.020 that somehow these alien spacecraft
00:19:19.460 defy those laws of physics,
00:19:20.700 which are irrevocable
00:19:21.760 and non-changeable.
00:19:22.900 Or two...
00:19:23.140 Or miraculous.
00:19:23.960 Or two,
00:19:24.740 that there has been some form
00:19:25.780 of optical illusion
00:19:26.960 or radar malfunction.
00:19:28.340 No, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:19:29.120 I said as a morally spiritual being.
00:19:31.600 We could be incorrect
00:19:32.660 about the laws of physics.
00:19:33.100 Yeah, that's why I said
00:19:33.980 as we understand them.
00:19:35.180 Right.
00:19:36.340 So, that's the qualifier.
00:19:37.740 The things that we would have
00:19:38.160 to be wrong about
00:19:38.820 in terms of the laws of physics
00:19:39.920 are things like
00:19:41.100 apparently the ionization
00:19:42.360 of the atmosphere
00:19:43.180 in the wake of objects
00:19:44.260 that are moving.
00:19:44.580 So, what we have...
00:19:45.460 These are fairly basic
00:19:46.780 physical principles.
00:19:47.720 We have physical objects
00:19:49.620 in the sky
00:19:50.000 that are flying
00:19:50.560 at high rates of speed
00:19:52.060 stop on a dime
00:19:53.580 and then go up or go down.
00:19:55.340 So, we don't know...
00:19:56.860 We would have no idea
00:19:57.640 how to create something
00:19:58.320 that can do that.
00:20:00.200 So, this is...
00:20:01.360 Someone has possession...
00:20:02.580 They're here to do that
00:20:03.060 on radar
00:20:03.520 or at very large distances.
00:20:05.340 that scientists have suggested
00:20:06.480 also could be...
00:20:07.780 And again, these are could-bes.
00:20:08.660 Okay, so let's stack up
00:20:09.880 these two possibilities.
00:20:10.720 One, these are alien spacecraft
00:20:12.740 that come from light years away
00:20:14.840 to Earth
00:20:15.840 to fly around,
00:20:17.840 be observed by radar,
00:20:18.780 and then leave.
00:20:20.180 Okay, that's it.
00:20:20.800 That's possibility number...
00:20:21.620 Possibility number two.
00:20:22.620 Who said they leave?
00:20:23.760 Oh, well, not be visible anymore.
00:20:26.060 Okay?
00:20:26.660 Or possibility number two.
00:20:28.500 Or possibility number two.
00:20:30.240 Optical illusion
00:20:31.040 or radar malfunction.
00:20:33.160 Which have you personally
00:20:34.120 experienced more times?
00:20:35.380 Optical illusion
00:20:36.060 and radar...
00:20:36.560 Like, when you look...
00:20:37.320 I've never experienced
00:20:38.140 radar malfunction.
00:20:38.900 I don't have a radar.
00:20:40.440 Check me.
00:20:41.080 Can I introduce some evidence
00:20:43.020 into this evidence list?
00:20:44.220 Do you think that...
00:20:44.760 When you look out
00:20:45.640 into the distance
00:20:46.060 on a real hot day,
00:20:46.760 you think it's a lake out there
00:20:47.720 or you think that maybe
00:20:48.440 that's actually just the heat rising?
00:20:49.660 Hold on a second.
00:20:50.280 It's a Martian lake.
00:20:51.620 They have radar
00:20:52.300 where they're locked in
00:20:53.420 on an object that's moving.
00:20:56.060 It does require
00:20:57.860 that they have to be able
00:20:58.600 to bend space-time,
00:21:00.440 fly from another galaxy,
00:21:02.200 arrive here,
00:21:02.680 and then their spark plugs jam
00:21:03.840 and they crash.
00:21:04.620 This is the thing...
00:21:05.340 This is the part
00:21:05.840 that loses me.
00:21:07.000 If they have the possibility
00:21:08.240 of violating what we think
00:21:10.240 of as the laws of physics
00:21:11.340 and then they come here
00:21:12.600 and then it's like,
00:21:13.480 putt, putt, putt,
00:21:13.960 oh, I'm out of gas.
00:21:14.880 You know, they just crash.
00:21:15.640 You have to remember
00:21:16.080 that the government
00:21:16.480 is good at things.
00:21:17.460 Thank you so much.
00:21:17.900 Oh, my God.
00:21:18.660 Thank you.
00:21:19.100 We haven't even begun.
00:21:21.340 I'd like to introduce
00:21:22.200 one piece of evidence here.
00:21:23.440 How do I stop this?
00:21:24.540 I'm kind of a Luddite.
00:21:25.100 Yeah, stop it.
00:21:25.700 Here's a piece of evidence.
00:21:27.180 And I've never introduced
00:21:28.280 this before.
00:21:28.840 You know my view is
00:21:29.940 that aliens are just
00:21:32.180 angels and demons
00:21:33.100 for libs who don't believe
00:21:34.600 in anything beyond
00:21:35.180 the material world.
00:21:35.760 That's crazy, too.
00:21:36.620 But here's my piece of evidence.
00:21:39.020 Alistair Crowley,
00:21:40.120 the most famous occultist
00:21:41.400 and Satanist.
00:21:43.120 A Satanist, yeah.
00:21:43.740 Satanist, he once
00:21:45.660 had a vision of a demon.
00:21:47.520 I'm sure he had
00:21:48.000 many visions of a demon.
00:21:48.960 But one time,
00:21:49.640 he sketched out the vision
00:21:50.600 that he had of a demon.
00:21:51.860 We don't have the graphic pulled,
00:21:53.160 and I, frankly,
00:21:53.800 don't even want to
00:21:54.360 have to look at it.
00:21:55.200 If you look at it,
00:21:55.900 it just looks like
00:21:57.220 people say aliens look.
00:21:58.480 It's just,
00:21:59.000 they're just demons, guys.
00:22:00.480 But I understand...
00:22:01.400 Flying around in spacecraft?
00:22:02.840 Yeah, well,
00:22:03.380 appearing to, yeah,
00:22:04.220 because they're pure spirit
00:22:05.140 and not bodies.
00:22:05.500 So what are the demons?
00:22:06.300 That's why we don't have
00:22:06.840 the bodies.
00:22:07.360 We have non-human biologics,
00:22:08.500 which is like a chicken sandwich
00:22:09.460 that some Navy pilot had
00:22:10.720 or some Chinese drone
00:22:11.840 or something.
00:22:12.160 Why are demons flying?
00:22:13.100 This is also one
00:22:14.000 of my favorite graphics.
00:22:14.760 I love it.
00:22:14.920 Yes, yes.
00:22:15.560 This one's great.
00:22:16.300 Reported UFO sightings.
00:22:17.640 Do you notice reported?
00:22:19.860 Right, no, no, no.
00:22:20.420 Reported, so this is what...
00:22:22.040 There's not a lot of reports
00:22:23.000 coming from China
00:22:23.720 because they're not
00:22:24.100 telling us about them.
00:22:25.000 What about Africa
00:22:25.680 or Latin America
00:22:26.460 or even Canada?
00:22:27.560 Who's going to report in Africa?
00:22:28.780 Or maybe it's a bunch
00:22:29.460 of crazy people in America
00:22:30.460 who have cell phones.
00:22:31.400 Yeah.
00:22:31.720 Maybe it's a bunch of crazy people
00:22:32.540 who are on social media all day.
00:22:33.440 So that's Western society,
00:22:37.380 modern technology,
00:22:38.680 lots of cell phones.
00:22:39.640 That's where you see
00:22:40.180 the sightings.
00:22:41.280 In places like China,
00:22:42.800 they're not going to report it.
00:22:43.640 They're smarter than that.
00:22:44.660 They're not going to tell us about it.
00:22:47.000 Africa, who's doing
00:22:48.060 the reporting in Africa?
00:22:48.940 Who's doing the reporting
00:22:49.680 in the savannah?
00:22:51.100 Maybe it turns out
00:22:51.780 that when people are not bored
00:22:52.940 and actually have to fight
00:22:53.860 to survive,
00:22:54.620 they don't get crap about
00:22:55.700 stupid optical illusions
00:22:56.760 in the sky.
00:22:57.440 There's also another question.
00:22:59.180 When they found
00:22:59.760 the slightest evidence
00:23:01.480 that there was possible life
00:23:02.840 on Mars in the 1980s,
00:23:05.020 they found the possibility
00:23:06.400 that there had once been...
00:23:07.640 It was on the front page
00:23:08.460 of the New York Post.
00:23:09.360 Why would they hide this?
00:23:10.560 Why is this a secret?
00:23:12.880 That's a very good question.
00:23:15.880 That's the question...
00:23:17.000 I would love for us
00:23:18.480 to be talking about
00:23:18.960 that question
00:23:19.580 so we could get past
00:23:20.460 this silly question
00:23:21.200 of whether they exist
00:23:21.840 in the first place.
00:23:22.100 Okay, fine.
00:23:22.380 So what's your theory?
00:23:24.100 Why they're hiding it?
00:23:24.880 Yeah.
00:23:25.400 Well, first of all,
00:23:26.380 right now,
00:23:27.220 it's...
00:23:27.720 They're actually admitting it.
00:23:30.700 So like now...
00:23:31.720 Now, yeah,
00:23:32.100 but why hide it up till now?
00:23:34.160 Are they good at hiding
00:23:34.880 things in the government?
00:23:35.620 Yeah.
00:23:36.160 Are they good at anything,
00:23:37.260 the government?
00:23:38.040 Like they're so good
00:23:38.740 that for 70 years,
00:23:39.680 they've been hiding
00:23:40.060 the greatest discovery
00:23:40.920 in the history of...
00:23:41.600 No, I think this actually works
00:23:42.580 exactly like you would
00:23:43.300 expect it to.
00:23:43.880 Like early on,
00:23:45.240 before the internet
00:23:46.280 and before everyone
00:23:47.080 had cell phones
00:23:47.620 and everything,
00:23:48.260 they could easily hide it
00:23:49.460 because they didn't
00:23:49.780 have to tell us.
00:23:50.600 You have some farmer
00:23:51.640 in Kansas,
00:23:52.120 as I saw a UFO,
00:23:53.360 it's easy for the government
00:23:54.000 to say,
00:23:54.200 oh, that guy's crazy.
00:23:55.160 But now there's so many
00:23:56.140 videos coming out
00:23:56.940 and you got Navy pilots
00:23:57.640 and all this stuff,
00:23:58.440 they have to say something
00:23:59.500 and so now I have
00:24:00.140 some whistleblowers
00:24:00.680 coming out.
00:24:01.120 It's kind of working
00:24:01.600 exactly as you would
00:24:02.360 expect it to.
00:24:03.200 It's working exactly
00:24:04.160 as you would expect it to.
00:24:04.240 Michael, I'm going
00:24:04.600 to hang myself.
00:24:05.280 Can we move on?
00:24:06.260 My only question,
00:24:07.260 look, I'd happily move on
00:24:08.300 except I don't know
00:24:09.440 who owns part of Daily Wire
00:24:11.200 right now because I always
00:24:12.300 assumed that you were
00:24:13.040 part owner of the company
00:24:13.900 and that these guys
00:24:14.920 were just hired help.
00:24:16.200 But then I learned today
00:24:17.760 on the Matt Walsh show
00:24:18.960 that in fact,
00:24:20.260 the turntables may have
00:24:21.580 turned or something.
00:24:26.760 Well, he's not my boss
00:24:28.560 anymore though
00:24:29.280 because I owned him.
00:24:30.840 Legally, he is now
00:24:32.420 my employee.
00:24:33.580 This is written into law.
00:24:35.180 A lot of people
00:24:35.420 don't know this,
00:24:36.560 but it's an actual thing.
00:24:38.600 If you own your boss
00:24:39.920 with a YouTube video,
00:24:42.420 then after that,
00:24:43.960 he actually becomes
00:24:44.680 your subordinate.
00:24:45.420 So it's a little-known
00:24:46.440 loophole in our labor laws.
00:24:49.640 But that's the situation.
00:24:52.940 That is a shocking
00:24:53.920 development to me.
00:24:56.200 And I urge you to try
00:24:57.220 to cash a check
00:24:57.900 under those pre-curses.
00:24:58.460 You may not teach you
00:24:59.460 that at Harvard Law.
00:25:00.360 Hang on a second.
00:25:01.160 There's a bit I have to do.
00:25:02.520 I was, Ben,
00:25:02.940 this is an Uno card.
00:25:05.580 So I was told offstage
00:25:08.860 that the kids
00:25:10.180 will understand that joke
00:25:11.120 and they'll relate to it.
00:25:12.060 I don't get that joke.
00:25:12.480 Even I understand that joke.
00:25:13.380 I don't know.
00:25:14.400 I had this whole conversation
00:25:15.360 about it.
00:25:16.080 And I was told the kids
00:25:16.980 will get it.
00:25:17.380 I am emotionally 12 years old.
00:25:18.680 I think we've all learned
00:25:19.300 something here today.
00:25:20.220 Yep.
00:25:20.820 Yeah.
00:25:21.220 Listen, while we're owning Ben,
00:25:24.000 I have...
00:25:25.640 Forget about the alien.
00:25:26.260 In violation of the 13th Amendment.
00:25:27.540 In violation...
00:25:27.960 I have to...
00:25:30.420 I, in preparation
00:25:31.220 for this show tonight,
00:25:32.540 I know you hate Barbie.
00:25:34.440 I know that you hate Barbie
00:25:35.500 so much and it became
00:25:36.140 so much of a part...
00:25:36.380 I swear to God,
00:25:36.760 if you defend Barbie,
00:25:37.520 I'm going to come across
00:25:38.540 the table.
00:25:38.960 I'm not doing...
00:25:39.740 Listen, I went into it
00:25:40.860 wanting to like Barbie
00:25:42.020 because I did want to
00:25:43.240 disagree with you
00:25:43.740 and I assumed you would.
00:25:44.520 But I kept an open mind
00:25:45.660 and I thought,
00:25:46.040 look, I'm not going to do it
00:25:46.900 just to...
00:25:47.740 I, sincerely,
00:25:52.060 I think it's...
00:25:52.940 I think it's terrific.
00:25:54.020 I think it's anti-feminist.
00:25:55.260 I know you disagree
00:25:56.880 so much so that The View
00:25:58.240 featured your harang,
00:26:01.280 your violent attack
00:26:02.620 on Barbie and Ken
00:26:03.880 on their show.
00:26:05.860 I can get worked up
00:26:06.660 over a doll movie.
00:26:07.740 Like, it reminds me
00:26:08.300 of the Bud Light,
00:26:09.100 you know, scandal or whatever.
00:26:11.380 Is there not something
00:26:12.380 more important going on
00:26:13.640 in the world
00:26:14.040 to get super passionate about?
00:26:15.720 But it is,
00:26:16.580 to Joy's point,
00:26:17.140 it kind of shows
00:26:17.800 how the right-wing influencers
00:26:19.240 are actually out of touch
00:26:20.340 with actual Republicans.
00:26:21.660 I'm so taken by
00:26:23.340 some of these right-wing men
00:26:24.820 who have all these thoughts
00:26:25.800 on masculinity.
00:26:26.940 Like, somehow the Barbie movie
00:26:28.340 is going to make them
00:26:28.860 feel emasculated.
00:26:30.160 No, caring so much about it
00:26:31.520 is honestly the most
00:26:32.380 emasculating thing
00:26:33.220 I could think about.
00:26:34.500 I think the last guy's voice
00:26:34.940 wasn't that Ben Shapiro?
00:26:36.120 Yeah.
00:26:36.280 Because if you're sitting there
00:26:37.180 and you flipped it on a head
00:26:38.180 and it was...
00:26:38.900 He looks like he should
00:26:39.700 be in the ball.
00:26:40.420 If you flip...
00:26:41.860 Why?
00:26:42.240 Because I have a rippling
00:26:43.200 six-pack?
00:26:44.000 Apparently you've got energy.
00:26:45.660 This is...
00:26:46.260 Meanwhile, but...
00:26:46.900 Sorry, I'm going to let you guys
00:26:47.500 but they are the ones...
00:26:49.100 These people celebrate
00:26:49.900 the movie.
00:26:50.380 It's some great triumph.
00:26:52.160 And then if we...
00:26:52.840 So it's the same thing.
00:26:53.680 If we criticize it,
00:26:54.840 well, why do you care so much?
00:26:56.000 You're the one saying
00:26:56.580 it's the great feminist triumph
00:26:58.140 in the first place.
00:26:58.800 This is my face tattoo
00:27:00.200 syndrome routine.
00:27:00.960 It's like you go into
00:27:01.860 the Starbucks
00:27:02.260 and there's some weirdo
00:27:02.960 with a face tattoo
00:27:03.560 and then you look at
00:27:04.260 the face tattoo.
00:27:04.720 Like, what are you looking at?
00:27:05.560 Like, your face tattoo.
00:27:06.900 It's like, well,
00:27:07.480 you're the ones who decided
00:27:08.300 that Barbie was not just
00:27:09.160 a movie about a child's toy.
00:27:10.700 You decided that it was a movie
00:27:11.700 about the power of feminism
00:27:13.280 and it was so important
00:27:14.180 that every child had to see it
00:27:15.520 so that girls could be empowered.
00:27:16.840 And then I'm like,
00:27:17.340 well, I think that it's
00:27:18.080 a crappy movie.
00:27:18.720 I don't think it's funny.
00:27:19.400 I think it's kind of stupid.
00:27:20.560 I think that it promotes
00:27:21.680 a bad message.
00:27:22.480 And you're like,
00:27:22.900 oh, how dare you be upset
00:27:24.320 about this movie
00:27:25.020 that's going to earn
00:27:25.480 a billion dollars
00:27:26.320 at the box office.
00:27:26.880 You did set the doll on fire.
00:27:28.180 Let's have me...
00:27:28.760 It's a Barbenheimer joke,
00:27:30.720 first of all.
00:27:31.720 Second of all,
00:27:32.780 I made a lot of money
00:27:33.540 off of that.
00:27:34.320 And so they asked me,
00:27:35.000 my producers came in,
00:27:35.740 they said,
00:27:35.900 with all the money
00:27:36.320 that we've made
00:27:36.840 off of that Barbie review,
00:27:38.440 what would you like to do with that?
00:27:39.180 And I said,
00:27:39.420 well, you have to keep
00:27:39.900 investing in the business.
00:27:40.640 So we obviously have to buy
00:27:41.500 like 800 more Barbies
00:27:42.620 and set them on fire.
00:27:43.300 Set them all on fire.
00:27:44.320 I mean, you just...
00:27:45.100 It's arbitrage.
00:27:46.520 That's right.
00:27:47.200 You have to keep investing
00:27:48.300 in the business.
00:27:48.800 You don't pull out
00:27:49.420 until the business
00:27:50.000 is essentially done.
00:27:52.160 Quick note to Alyssa Farah,
00:27:54.040 who...
00:27:54.520 I met Alyssa Farah
00:27:55.860 when I was in
00:27:56.460 Vice President Mike Pence's office
00:27:58.280 in the Oval Office.
00:27:59.800 And she was a large-scale fan
00:28:01.740 of the show at the time.
00:28:03.580 Really?
00:28:04.100 Oh, yes.
00:28:04.840 And so her mock horror
00:28:07.520 at learning
00:28:08.640 that I disliked
00:28:09.960 the Barbie movie,
00:28:10.540 I find rather unconvincing.
00:28:13.080 What she has here
00:28:13.940 is very strong 2012 GOP energy.
00:28:17.180 Yes.
00:28:17.460 Which is, you know,
00:28:18.220 who cares about the culture?
00:28:19.820 Let's just talk about
00:28:20.680 things that matter,
00:28:21.440 like...
00:28:21.500 They're really smart.
00:28:22.460 Regulatory reform.
00:28:23.540 Regulatory reform.
00:28:24.420 I think we should pause
00:28:25.240 here for a moment.
00:28:25.800 Let's hear...
00:28:26.300 Did you like the Barbie movie?
00:28:27.140 I did.
00:28:27.600 First of all,
00:28:28.680 I'm proud of you
00:28:29.040 for coming out as a gay man.
00:28:31.440 Listen,
00:28:32.040 good for you.
00:28:32.680 Living your truth.
00:28:33.400 Grew up in New York.
00:28:34.380 I went to a certain university.
00:28:36.100 Yeah, that's really...
00:28:37.120 You know,
00:28:37.460 no socks in my loafers.
00:28:39.160 I sincerely liked it
00:28:40.640 because...
00:28:41.900 You're the worst person.
00:28:42.600 Listen,
00:28:43.160 this is not...
00:28:44.360 Certain movies...
00:28:45.060 That's a big badder shit,
00:28:45.700 my friend.
00:28:45.780 Certain movies
00:28:46.540 I will grant you.
00:28:48.240 This is the kind
00:28:48.720 of sophisticated conversation
00:28:50.340 that I love to be a part of.
00:28:51.660 I try...
00:28:52.760 In some movies,
00:28:54.060 I'll totally grant.
00:28:55.840 Maybe I'm inclined
00:28:57.000 to read a little too much
00:28:57.920 into it or something like that.
00:28:58.880 I don't think that's
00:28:59.560 what's going on here.
00:29:00.140 I think the movie
00:29:01.080 is very clearly anti-feminist.
00:29:03.280 Here's my brief evidence for it.
00:29:06.480 Barbieland is a feminist utopia.
00:29:08.060 It's established that way
00:29:08.820 from the opening scene.
00:29:10.360 The opening scene...
00:29:11.280 This is spoiler alert,
00:29:12.400 by the way.
00:29:12.940 The opening scene
00:29:13.740 is an homage
00:29:14.440 to 2001 A Space Odyssey,
00:29:15.940 and the little girls
00:29:16.800 are having fun
00:29:17.300 playing with their baby dolls
00:29:18.240 until Barbie comes around.
00:29:19.900 And Barbie,
00:29:20.940 the symbol of feminism,
00:29:22.460 comes in
00:29:23.040 and inspires these girls
00:29:24.820 to murder their baby dolls
00:29:26.480 and to pursue Barbie.
00:29:28.100 Then in Barbieland,
00:29:29.240 the women run everything
00:29:30.200 and they're all feminists.
00:29:31.120 The woman is a president,
00:29:32.280 woman's a doctor,
00:29:33.000 woman's this,
00:29:33.480 woman's that.
00:29:33.900 The men are total second class.
00:29:35.680 Technically,
00:29:36.140 a man who's playing
00:29:36.840 a woman is a doctor,
00:29:37.540 but yes.
00:29:37.900 A man...
00:29:38.400 Oh, yeah, I know.
00:29:39.040 But the...
00:29:39.940 As a trans woman.
00:29:40.640 The trans thing
00:29:41.400 is there
00:29:43.220 as part of the Barbie universe,
00:29:44.520 but it's not
00:29:45.020 totally emphasized.
00:29:45.960 And so,
00:29:48.300 in Barbieland,
00:29:50.180 you get a view
00:29:51.320 of all of the Barbies
00:29:52.400 and, oh, this Barbie
00:29:53.580 is this figure
00:29:54.320 and this, that,
00:29:54.740 and the other thing.
00:29:55.540 Except for one
00:29:56.320 gets written out
00:29:56.920 very early on.
00:29:57.540 There's a pregnant Barbie,
00:29:58.920 but then very quickly
00:29:59.740 they say,
00:30:00.220 oh, no,
00:30:00.800 she's not allowed to be here.
00:30:02.180 We got rid of her
00:30:02.900 really quickly.
00:30:04.080 And in Barbieland,
00:30:06.160 Barbie's not totally happy.
00:30:08.640 I mean, it's...
00:30:09.280 She's happy in the sense
00:30:10.200 that it's the same fun party
00:30:11.420 every single day,
00:30:12.260 but there's no future.
00:30:13.240 There's only this
00:30:13.700 perpetual present.
00:30:15.000 And then she goes
00:30:15.780 into the real world.
00:30:16.760 And by the way,
00:30:17.380 even when she,
00:30:18.360 when the feminist guru character
00:30:19.920 offers Barbie the chance
00:30:21.160 to go into the real world
00:30:22.000 to see what it's like
00:30:23.460 and to try to fix some problems,
00:30:25.160 she says,
00:30:25.580 okay, you take the red pill
00:30:26.320 or the blue pill?
00:30:27.320 The red pill
00:30:28.940 is the Birkenstocks.
00:30:30.060 The blue pill
00:30:30.560 is the high heels.
00:30:31.580 What does Barbie say?
00:30:32.280 She goes,
00:30:32.540 oh, I have the choice?
00:30:33.240 Good.
00:30:33.620 I'll take the high heels, please.
00:30:34.940 I want to just be
00:30:35.680 a happy woman.
00:30:36.800 And the feminist says,
00:30:37.860 oh, you weren't supposed
00:30:39.080 to pick that.
00:30:39.980 You don't actually
00:30:40.600 have the choice.
00:30:41.540 You've got to wear
00:30:42.140 the Birkenstocks
00:30:42.800 to go into the real world.
00:30:43.800 So she goes
00:30:44.300 into the real world.
00:30:45.020 The real world
00:30:45.620 is supposedly a patriarchy.
00:30:48.080 And you hear the word patriarchy,
00:30:49.220 as you pointed out, Ben.
00:30:50.280 You hear the word patriarchy
00:30:51.240 like a dozen times.
00:30:52.080 In double digits, yeah.
00:30:52.620 Yeah.
00:30:53.980 But what's very interesting
00:30:55.700 is the actions
00:30:57.200 that move the plot along,
00:30:58.620 that actually have consequences
00:30:59.900 in the world,
00:31:00.820 they're all done by women
00:31:01.980 in very subtle ways.
00:31:03.060 A woman who draws
00:31:04.000 a little picture of Barbie,
00:31:04.900 a woman who has a thought
00:31:05.620 about death
00:31:06.600 and the future
00:31:07.260 and generations.
00:31:08.020 The central theme
00:31:09.040 of the whole movie
00:31:10.520 is motherhood.
00:31:11.960 And so then I'm not,
00:31:13.180 I won't,
00:31:13.480 maybe I'll go into it
00:31:14.140 a little bit more
00:31:14.500 on my show tomorrow,
00:31:15.320 but let's fast forward.
00:31:16.000 We'll go back to Aliens.
00:31:16.860 This is where I think
00:31:18.920 where Greta Gerwig,
00:31:20.180 who is a fairly conservative
00:31:21.440 filmmaker if you watch Lady Bird,
00:31:23.180 where Greta Gerwig
00:31:23.800 I think really tips her hand,
00:31:24.980 and this is a major
00:31:25.600 spoiler alert.
00:31:26.460 At the very end,
00:31:28.020 there's this scene
00:31:29.220 where after the big
00:31:30.320 feminist speech,
00:31:31.340 the woman is complaining.
00:31:32.360 She says,
00:31:33.260 it's so impossible
00:31:34.500 to be a woman
00:31:35.060 because we're expected
00:31:36.040 to be girl bosses.
00:31:37.600 We're expected
00:31:38.380 to work all these jobs.
00:31:40.260 The things she's
00:31:41.320 complaining about
00:31:41.920 are the result of feminism,
00:31:43.300 not traditional society.
00:31:44.840 Then Barbie is given
00:31:46.160 the choice.
00:31:46.500 Do you stay in the
00:31:47.040 feminist utopia Barbie land?
00:31:48.180 Do you go into the real world,
00:31:49.000 which is supposedly patriarchy?
00:31:50.540 She chooses the real world.
00:31:52.680 She goes out there
00:31:53.260 and she meets
00:31:53.760 the creator of Barbie,
00:31:55.160 Rhea Perlman.
00:31:56.100 Great scene.
00:31:57.900 And Rhea Perlman
00:31:58.720 actually says,
00:32:00.560 she says,
00:32:00.940 well, what about all this,
00:32:01.780 you know,
00:32:02.320 this awful world out here?
00:32:03.680 She goes,
00:32:03.960 look,
00:32:04.580 we come up with
00:32:05.320 all these make-believe things
00:32:06.920 to make sense
00:32:07.640 of the complicated world.
00:32:08.820 We make things up.
00:32:10.260 Like Barbie.
00:32:11.740 Like patriarchy.
00:32:13.360 So she actually says,
00:32:14.420 this notion of the patriarchy
00:32:15.640 is a made-up thing.
00:32:16.820 And then here's the clincher.
00:32:18.680 Isn't she saying
00:32:19.040 that the patriarchy itself
00:32:20.220 is a thing that we know?
00:32:21.720 No, she's saying
00:32:22.280 the notion of patriarchy
00:32:23.920 and here's the final proof of it.
00:32:25.780 The final scene,
00:32:27.000 right before Barbie decides,
00:32:29.120 okay, this is going to be
00:32:29.700 my life in the real world.
00:32:31.000 The montage of what
00:32:32.120 she can achieve
00:32:32.600 in the real world
00:32:33.100 is not her going out
00:32:34.000 to be a girl boss
00:32:34.800 at some widget company
00:32:35.640 or whatever.
00:32:36.380 It's motherhood.
00:32:37.640 And then the very final scene,
00:32:39.080 this is the clincher
00:32:39.940 where I think
00:32:40.320 you couldn't deny it.
00:32:41.740 She's walking in
00:32:42.540 and it's supposed to be
00:32:43.040 the big triumph
00:32:43.800 of feminist Barbie.
00:32:45.020 She's walking in
00:32:45.780 for her job interview.
00:32:47.160 Walks up to the secretary
00:32:48.040 and she says,
00:32:48.940 hi, my name is Barbara Handel
00:32:50.920 and I'm here for my appointment.
00:32:53.940 And the woman says,
00:32:54.520 okay, what can I do for you?
00:32:56.060 What are you here for?
00:32:57.340 And she says,
00:32:58.760 not I'm here for my job interview.
00:33:00.120 She says,
00:33:00.620 I'm here to see my gynecologist.
00:33:02.520 Which is,
00:33:04.040 it's a play on
00:33:05.280 the motherhood
00:33:06.000 from the beginning.
00:33:06.600 It's a play on Barbie.
00:33:07.680 Wait, I have to say something.
00:33:10.020 I can't defend you
00:33:11.320 because I didn't see Barbie
00:33:12.880 because I'm a heterosexual adult.
00:33:14.680 But, adult now.
00:33:16.440 But I have to say
00:33:17.900 that Greta Gerwig
00:33:18.500 is not a radical feminist director
00:33:21.220 just having seen Lady Bird
00:33:22.560 which is quite a good film.
00:33:23.300 No, but she is,
00:33:24.200 but she,
00:33:24.880 like Noah Baumbach,
00:33:26.380 her paramour.
00:33:27.500 Yeah, who also is against,
00:33:29.380 did that wonderful movie
00:33:30.860 about divorce.
00:33:31.700 Oh, I can't believe
00:33:32.280 you like that movie.
00:33:33.000 It was about
00:33:33.440 how destructive divorce was.
00:33:34.800 That entire movie
00:33:35.640 is about a bunch of
00:33:36.700 self-obsessed,
00:33:38.480 narcissistic jackass
00:33:40.360 who don't give a shit
00:33:41.680 about their kid.
00:33:42.480 That's what that movie's about.
00:33:43.680 And somehow I'm supposed
00:33:44.960 to care about these people
00:33:45.900 and their story.
00:33:46.460 No, no, no, no.
00:33:47.220 It was about how destructive
00:33:48.320 they are.
00:33:48.420 You're right.
00:33:48.740 These are all secretly.
00:33:49.580 Do you imagine?
00:33:50.740 No, I didn't say
00:33:51.160 she was conservative.
00:33:51.940 She's not a feminist.
00:33:53.440 Here's what I would argue.
00:33:54.860 Anti-feminist.
00:33:55.820 She's anti-feminist.
00:33:56.540 You think she intentionally
00:33:57.980 made this broadside attack
00:34:00.860 on feminism itself?
00:34:02.920 I mean, you would have
00:34:03.380 to be a far conservative,
00:34:06.220 like hardcore conservative
00:34:07.180 to do something like that.
00:34:08.060 No, that's no way.
00:34:08.760 Wait, wait, wait.
00:34:09.140 That's actually not my point.
00:34:09.780 Here's what actually happened.
00:34:10.820 You know what actually happened?
00:34:11.960 Have you seen the movie?
00:34:12.900 Be quiet.
00:34:13.140 No, no, no.
00:34:13.840 Hold on.
00:34:14.440 All right, Drew, finish.
00:34:15.040 There is a movement now
00:34:16.660 among highly intelligent,
00:34:18.280 semi-left-wing women
00:34:19.680 rejecting feminism.
00:34:21.420 It is growing up
00:34:22.380 and the only person covering it
00:34:23.540 is me because I actually
00:34:25.040 listen to what they say.
00:34:25.880 What?
00:34:26.180 Like the Red Scare podcast, right?
00:34:27.760 Yes, the Red Scare,
00:34:28.760 Mary Harrington.
00:34:29.700 These are women who identify
00:34:30.720 as more or less left-wing,
00:34:32.940 but they suddenly say,
00:34:34.160 you know,
00:34:34.340 these babies are kind of nice
00:34:35.540 and we're being written
00:34:36.700 out of existence
00:34:37.460 by the transgender movement,
00:34:39.200 which is a logical extension
00:34:40.600 of feminism.
00:34:41.420 They're not dumb
00:34:42.100 and they see this
00:34:42.900 and I'm not,
00:34:43.380 I haven't seen the movie
00:34:44.420 and really don't want to
00:34:45.860 except now I'll have to.
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00:35:43.460 Okay, so,
00:35:44.020 let me now give
00:35:46.080 a couple pronged response.
00:35:48.020 One,
00:35:49.380 there's a movie
00:35:49.900 that you are seeing,
00:35:51.020 and then there's the movie
00:35:51.660 that the American public
00:35:52.420 is seeing.
00:35:53.420 Okay, you're doing
00:35:54.040 a real Straussian
00:35:54.800 esoteric read
00:35:55.600 on this film.
00:35:56.540 I don't think it's that esoteric,
00:35:57.720 but yeah.
00:35:58.380 It's definitely a deep read
00:35:59.780 on Barbie.
00:36:00.560 Okay, the surface read
00:36:01.360 on Barbie
00:36:01.660 is nothing remotely like this.
00:36:02.860 The surface read
00:36:03.480 on Barbie
00:36:03.920 is that Barbie herself,
00:36:07.340 when she goes
00:36:07.820 into the real world,
00:36:08.420 is immediately victimized
00:36:09.500 by the patriarchy,
00:36:10.620 that Ken,
00:36:11.220 when he goes back
00:36:12.000 to Barbie Land,
00:36:12.680 immediately establishes
00:36:13.700 the horrors of the Kendom,
00:36:14.900 which must be overcome,
00:36:16.040 and the conclusion,
00:36:18.060 The women love Kendom.
00:36:18.940 Until they are
00:36:19.880 disabused of their love
00:36:20.860 of Kendom
00:36:21.240 by the truth,
00:36:22.040 which is feminism,
00:36:22.880 at which point
00:36:23.360 they do not actually,
00:36:24.620 the normal,
00:36:25.420 by the way,
00:36:26.000 course that this movie
00:36:26.820 would take
00:36:27.240 if you were to
00:36:27.940 actively make it
00:36:29.080 in an anti-feminist direction
00:36:30.380 is that Barbie Land
00:36:31.180 would become more equal.
00:36:32.680 Everyone would treat
00:36:33.140 each other as an individual.
00:36:34.160 That's not what happens.
00:36:34.900 Instead,
00:36:35.180 they reestablish
00:36:35.820 the matriarchy at the end
00:36:36.800 with the men
00:36:37.100 in a subservient position,
00:36:38.400 and the tagline at the end
00:36:39.680 where she learns emotion
00:36:40.960 and says she has to go back
00:36:41.720 to the real world
00:36:42.280 and therefore goes
00:36:42.860 to the gynecologist
00:36:43.560 is not about motherhood.
00:36:44.960 It's a throwaway joke
00:36:45.780 about her growing vagina
00:36:46.660 because that's the entire film.
00:36:48.260 The film has these kinds of jokes
00:36:49.400 littered throughout it.
00:36:50.800 The notion that this is
00:36:52.200 like a deep read
00:36:52.980 on feminism
00:36:53.380 is not right.
00:36:54.040 The only plausible notion
00:36:55.240 I can see
00:36:55.740 is that Greta Gerwig herself
00:36:57.040 is trapped by feminism,
00:36:58.780 meaning that she made a movie
00:36:59.960 that was meant to be
00:37:00.620 an homage to feminism.
00:37:01.740 It was meant to be
00:37:02.240 a rip on the patriarchy,
00:37:03.140 and she finds herself unable
00:37:05.080 because she is not
00:37:06.180 truly, as you say,
00:37:08.340 like an ardent feminist.
00:37:09.520 She finds herself
00:37:10.280 in this false bind
00:37:11.400 of not being able to get out.
00:37:12.560 And so what that's reflected in
00:37:13.580 is a very messy movie.
00:37:14.800 The movie is a thematic mess.
00:37:16.540 There are a bunch of elements of it
00:37:18.120 that do not fit your narrative
00:37:19.100 and they don't fit my narrative.
00:37:19.880 And the reason is
00:37:20.500 because they're in conflict
00:37:21.300 with one another.
00:37:21.740 I don't think so.
00:37:22.760 I mean, I just...
00:37:23.880 There is literally a speech
00:37:25.060 where Barbie articulates
00:37:26.840 that in order to live
00:37:28.140 as a woman in the real world,
00:37:29.200 either you have to buy
00:37:29.800 fully into delusion
00:37:30.940 or you have to be considered
00:37:32.240 a crazy weird Barbie
00:37:33.100 who is lesbian Kate McKinnon
00:37:34.360 weird Barbie, right?
00:37:35.440 Those are the only two choices.
00:37:36.640 There is no third choice
00:37:37.500 whereby you can live
00:37:38.380 a happy life
00:37:39.040 as a traditional woman.
00:37:40.000 This is forbade.
00:37:40.700 But then what does she do?
00:37:41.860 You're right that she's troubled
00:37:43.440 by the...
00:37:43.960 America Ferrara's speech
00:37:44.920 does not...
00:37:45.560 America Ferrara's speech
00:37:46.500 is not about how
00:37:47.480 the solution to this
00:37:48.500 is traditional joys of motherhood.
00:37:49.860 It's about how it's impossible
00:37:50.560 because men are evil pigs
00:37:51.800 for women to live happily.
00:37:53.420 No, they're...
00:37:53.980 She literally says that
00:37:54.660 in the speech.
00:37:55.020 No, no, no.
00:37:55.280 This is the point.
00:37:56.540 You're right that in these speeches
00:37:58.000 they're trying to work
00:37:59.080 through the problems of feminism
00:38:00.280 and they're speaking
00:38:01.280 as many American
00:38:02.280 and many liberal women
00:38:03.120 would speak today
00:38:04.040 and they feel that it's a trap.
00:38:05.660 But then at the end of the movie
00:38:07.200 the conclusion
00:38:08.220 the reconciliation of these problems...
00:38:09.480 So I have a question.
00:38:10.340 Why does the left love it?
00:38:11.580 Simple question.
00:38:12.180 Why do the women of the view like it?
00:38:12.880 Wait, wait.
00:38:13.100 Can I ask a question?
00:38:13.860 Is it because they're...
00:38:14.560 Are they misreading it
00:38:15.200 or are you misreading it?
00:38:15.760 They're misreading it.
00:38:16.720 Of course.
00:38:17.140 They misread everything.
00:38:18.280 They don't know what a man is.
00:38:19.000 Okay, so the 50, 60, 70 million people
00:38:21.340 who are watching
00:38:21.760 you think they're reading it like you
00:38:22.560 or you think they're reading it
00:38:23.240 like the ladies of the view?
00:38:23.980 I don't know how they're reading it.
00:38:25.000 I do.
00:38:25.260 Wait, I want to ask a question about that
00:38:27.780 because what I did
00:38:29.300 is I went and see Oppenheimer
00:38:30.420 simply for the experience
00:38:32.260 of having three hours
00:38:32.920 of not watching Barbie
00:38:33.760 and I thought Oppenheimer
00:38:34.940 was a really good movie.
00:38:36.300 I thought it was, in fact,
00:38:37.280 the first really good movie
00:38:38.360 that guy has made.
00:38:39.240 I know everybody's...
00:38:40.080 I want to love him
00:38:40.840 but I thought it was
00:38:41.660 the first movie he's made
00:38:42.540 since the Dark Knight trilogy
00:38:43.820 that was really good.
00:38:45.200 And one of the things
00:38:45.780 that truly impressed me
00:38:47.440 about Oppenheimer
00:38:48.080 was how art trumps politics
00:38:49.800 because in politics
00:38:51.820 you have to sit around
00:38:52.500 and talk about
00:38:52.980 were we right to drop the bomb?
00:38:54.480 Yes, we were.
00:38:55.060 No, we weren't.
00:38:55.700 That kind of thing.
00:38:56.320 It's this binary choice
00:38:57.360 that you have to make.
00:38:58.420 But in the arts,
00:38:59.120 you can say
00:38:59.700 we might have had to drop it.
00:39:01.540 It might still be an atrocity.
00:39:03.100 It might be an atrocity.
00:39:04.240 It might have been
00:39:04.760 the best atrocity.
00:39:05.800 It might have been
00:39:06.500 a good thing in the moment.
00:39:07.420 It might lead to the end
00:39:08.160 of the world.
00:39:08.580 You can have this kind of
00:39:09.240 complex vision of the world
00:39:10.660 and so people are going to...
00:39:13.220 People who are politicized
00:39:14.480 are going to go to these movies
00:39:15.700 and come out and say,
00:39:16.500 well, he talked too much
00:39:17.480 about the communists
00:39:18.160 or he left the communists off the...
00:39:19.160 But that's not what he's doing.
00:39:20.400 He's actually making art
00:39:21.600 which is much more complex
00:39:23.020 than politics.
00:39:23.560 So maybe she's doing the same thing.
00:39:24.840 Well, this is...
00:39:25.300 I guess this is...
00:39:26.020 I don't know her politics.
00:39:27.560 And she's kind of coy
00:39:28.540 in her politics.
00:39:29.260 But I will say,
00:39:30.680 I think she's a genius filmmaker.
00:39:32.260 I think she's really
00:39:33.000 an excellent filmmaker.
00:39:34.800 I think Lady Bird was terrific.
00:39:36.580 Okay.
00:39:37.360 Forget Lady Bird for a second
00:39:38.300 because we can discuss that.
00:39:38.900 And I think Barbie was terrific.
00:39:39.920 It's also just great filmmaking.
00:39:41.240 It is not even remotely
00:39:42.220 great filmmaking.
00:39:42.980 It has about three laugh moments.
00:39:44.300 The movie's at least
00:39:44.860 20 minutes too long.
00:39:45.620 I was laughing the whole time.
00:39:46.480 It is too long though.
00:39:47.220 The movie is...
00:39:47.820 But all movies are too long.
00:39:48.720 All movies are too long.
00:39:49.440 But it's a great sin in a comedy
00:39:51.520 because it's all timing.
00:39:52.740 The only funny performance
00:39:53.880 in the film
00:39:54.220 is given by Ron Gosling.
00:39:55.600 He's excellent.
00:39:56.780 Margot Robbie is not funny.
00:39:57.940 I thought she was good.
00:39:58.640 Robbie.
00:39:59.080 Okay, but...
00:39:59.760 Ria Promen was good.
00:40:01.660 She's the kind of writer
00:40:02.600 who drops Proust Barbie jokes
00:40:04.280 in the middle of a film.
00:40:05.280 Which I lulled at.
00:40:06.420 I'll tell you.
00:40:07.000 Of course you did
00:40:07.640 because this movie
00:40:08.140 was written for you.
00:40:09.260 It really was.
00:40:09.840 It was written for
00:40:10.300 upper class white females.
00:40:12.580 Upper class white females.
00:40:13.720 That's who it was written for.
00:40:14.960 Okay, you know
00:40:15.440 who it wasn't written for?
00:40:16.420 That was low, man.
00:40:17.920 Because you know
00:40:18.740 who this was not written for?
00:40:19.320 True, but low.
00:40:20.040 You know who this was not written for?
00:40:21.460 The actual people
00:40:22.380 who like Barbies.
00:40:23.900 Namely, young girls.
00:40:25.220 It was not for young girls.
00:40:25.880 But you know
00:40:26.520 who was showing up
00:40:26.920 at the theater?
00:40:27.760 I know because I was there
00:40:28.880 because I had to go
00:40:29.720 to this damn thing.
00:40:30.540 I was there
00:40:31.140 and you know who it was?
00:40:31.760 It was Mommies
00:40:32.180 and their 8-year-old girls.
00:40:33.200 And all those 8-year-old girls
00:40:34.420 were being told
00:40:35.200 on the screen
00:40:35.900 by a man playing a woman
00:40:37.920 that the way that women
00:40:39.060 are to be upheld
00:40:40.660 in society
00:40:41.360 is to literally separate
00:40:42.500 from the men.
00:40:43.140 This is the message.
00:40:43.720 One of the messages
00:40:44.400 in the bad place.
00:40:45.160 In the bad place.
00:40:46.140 In the good place
00:40:46.820 there are no men.
00:40:47.760 They don't exist.
00:40:48.640 The only men
00:40:49.220 in the good place
00:40:49.920 are afterthought.
00:40:49.980 No, the bad place
00:40:51.300 is Barbie land.
00:40:52.060 That's why Barbie leaves.
00:40:53.640 She leaves because
00:40:54.960 she's become too human.
00:40:56.220 Okay, it's this.
00:40:56.780 Isn't she like
00:40:57.420 immediately assaulted
00:40:58.300 as soon as she gets
00:40:58.880 to the real world?
00:40:58.900 Yes, she slapped
00:40:59.700 on the ass immediately.
00:41:00.800 But she still chooses
00:41:01.680 to go back
00:41:02.280 because she likes
00:41:03.400 patriarchy.
00:41:04.000 But Michael,
00:41:04.540 the existence
00:41:05.780 of this trans person
00:41:07.640 in the film at all
00:41:09.280 completely destroys
00:41:10.580 your theory.
00:41:11.120 This is correct, of course.
00:41:12.260 The trans person
00:41:13.580 is hit on
00:41:15.640 by Ryan Gosling
00:41:16.420 in the film
00:41:17.020 as a woman.
00:41:17.620 But my theory
00:41:18.220 is...
00:41:18.520 The trans person's there
00:41:18.640 to make some kind
00:41:19.040 of anti...
00:41:20.120 Well, no,
00:41:20.740 they're pointing out
00:41:21.260 that Barbie has
00:41:22.220 all of these
00:41:22.640 very feminist aspects
00:41:23.560 to it,
00:41:23.960 including the
00:41:24.460 transgenderism.
00:41:25.020 I don't even want
00:41:25.080 to go to see
00:41:25.480 Margot Robbie's song.
00:41:26.880 And Margot Robbie
00:41:27.880 is great in the movie.
00:41:30.140 Let's just leave it
00:41:30.740 at that.
00:41:31.440 But no,
00:41:32.220 I guess my theory
00:41:33.040 hinges on Barbie land
00:41:35.180 as a feminist utopia
00:41:36.500 being the sort of thing
00:41:38.060 that ought to be rejected
00:41:39.180 as it is
00:41:40.000 by the protagonist
00:41:40.680 at the end of the movie.
00:41:41.480 And yet it's not destroyed.
00:41:42.700 If she wished to destroy it,
00:41:43.720 then what she actually
00:41:44.400 had to do
00:41:44.960 was come to the natural
00:41:45.860 denouement of the movie,
00:41:46.820 which they're building toward
00:41:47.500 because she mistreats Ken.
00:41:48.880 The way that this is
00:41:49.560 supposed to conclude...
00:41:50.640 But Ken is a cuck.
00:41:51.540 Ken is a simp.
00:41:52.560 He's not a man.
00:41:54.100 That's a ridiculous...
00:41:55.120 He's not a patriarch.
00:41:56.820 Now you're getting...
00:41:57.920 He literally comes back
00:41:59.080 and establishes a man's utopia
00:42:00.640 in her view.
00:42:01.680 And the proper conclusion
00:42:02.840 of this film
00:42:03.580 would be for Barbie and Ken
00:42:05.780 to get along
00:42:06.440 and for them to actually
00:42:07.620 share this utopia.
00:42:08.780 But that's not the conclusion.
00:42:09.300 But they don't have a marriage.
00:42:10.100 They have a long-distance,
00:42:11.500 low-effort relationship.
00:42:12.920 Can I rule it?
00:42:13.680 So he's obviously gay, right?
00:42:15.540 Yeah.
00:42:16.860 By the way,
00:42:17.580 the entire movie
00:42:18.580 is just gay jokes
00:42:19.460 about Ken
00:42:19.980 and the fellow Kens.
00:42:21.080 Right.
00:42:21.360 That's the problem.
00:42:21.940 He's not a real man.
00:42:23.100 I mean, let's face it.
00:42:24.320 There's a four-minute segment
00:42:25.400 at the beginning
00:42:25.900 where they literally make jokes
00:42:27.740 about gay masturbation.
00:42:29.360 It's literally for four long minutes.
00:42:32.260 That's the feminist view
00:42:33.480 of the man,
00:42:34.360 which is...
00:42:35.000 Now, you got in trouble.
00:42:35.600 You know, I can't deal with this.
00:42:36.840 Listen, I like Strauss, okay?
00:42:38.520 I read Leo Strauss.
00:42:39.640 I enjoy natural right in history.
00:42:41.060 I like all that stuff, okay?
00:42:42.240 But I'm just going to point out to you
00:42:43.500 that you're so unbelievably full
00:42:45.080 of dog crap at this point.
00:42:47.000 This is not a...
00:42:48.240 At best,
00:42:49.460 what you can say...
00:42:50.240 Are you claiming...
00:42:50.800 In order for what you're saying
00:42:51.680 to be true,
00:42:52.580 Greta Gorg has to be
00:42:53.280 a conscious anti-feminist.
00:42:54.400 How do we put a time limit
00:42:55.240 on aliens,
00:42:55.740 but not on this.
00:42:56.900 Okay, I'll tell you what.
00:42:57.640 I'll shift to a slightly related topic
00:43:00.460 that you got in trouble for,
00:43:01.900 which is you jerk.
00:43:04.660 You outrageous,
00:43:06.140 bomb-throwing maniac.
00:43:07.600 You criticized feminism
00:43:09.580 and went viral for it.
00:43:11.440 What did you say?
00:43:13.260 Well, I mean,
00:43:14.100 I haven't seen either movie
00:43:15.340 and I want to see Oppenheimer,
00:43:16.880 but six kids,
00:43:17.600 I can't see a three-hour movie
00:43:18.720 in theater.
00:43:19.120 It's just impossible.
00:43:19.760 It's impossible.
00:43:20.580 I did this last week.
00:43:21.980 Let me tell you,
00:43:22.360 my wife is not super happy with me.
00:43:23.780 Yeah.
00:43:24.120 Oh, you went by yourself.
00:43:24.760 I went with a couple of friends
00:43:26.820 and I showed up
00:43:28.080 like 45 minutes
00:43:28.820 after the kids
00:43:29.700 had gotten back from camp.
00:43:30.940 It didn't go amazing.
00:43:32.640 Because I always had this idea
00:43:33.620 that I should bring my wife
00:43:34.520 for things like that
00:43:35.240 and that's why I couldn't.
00:43:36.300 I asked my wife.
00:43:37.020 If you wanted to see Indiana Jones
00:43:38.140 and not this.
00:43:39.340 But anyway,
00:43:40.700 as someone who hasn't seen it,
00:43:42.640 what I take from this
00:43:44.180 is that it's a good opportunity
00:43:44.940 to reflect on the fact
00:43:46.820 that feminism has killed
00:43:48.340 more people than the atom bomb,
00:43:50.080 which is what I tweeted out.
00:43:51.400 It has killed far more people
00:43:52.480 than the atom bomb.
00:43:53.640 The funny thing is...
00:43:54.220 It's so subtle about this point.
00:43:54.840 Simple fact.
00:43:56.440 It's actually a simple fact.
00:43:57.420 It's not wrong.
00:43:57.840 It was interesting to me
00:43:58.680 to see a lot of,
00:43:59.420 not surprising,
00:44:00.200 but even some conservatives
00:44:01.400 reacting to that.
00:44:02.540 It's like,
00:44:02.680 I don't even know
00:44:03.100 what you're talking about.
00:44:03.640 What could you possibly,
00:44:04.480 really, 60 million?
00:44:05.480 We can just start
00:44:06.840 with 60 million babies.
00:44:07.880 That's really just
00:44:08.480 the beginning of it
00:44:09.320 before we get to
00:44:09.840 the utter destruction
00:44:11.060 of the family by feminism.
00:44:13.460 Completely true.
00:44:14.120 But the interesting thing
00:44:15.080 that happened from this
00:44:15.980 feels weird.
00:44:17.000 Is that it was an opportunity
00:44:19.060 for what they call
00:44:20.280 the gender-critical feminists
00:44:21.540 who are the feminists
00:44:22.380 who are critical
00:44:23.220 of transgenderism
00:44:24.240 who have been
00:44:25.520 really uncomfortable with me,
00:44:26.980 but they're kind of like,
00:44:27.660 I don't know, this guy
00:44:28.600 and what is a woman?
00:44:29.580 They saw this
00:44:30.520 and they're like,
00:44:30.900 okay, screw this guy.
00:44:32.420 And they started passing
00:44:34.640 along this video
00:44:35.600 of Helen Joyce
00:44:36.700 who's a feminist writer
00:44:37.580 and a year ago
00:44:39.240 she did an interview
00:44:39.880 that I didn't even see,
00:44:41.140 but she was talking
00:44:41.900 about what is a woman
00:44:42.680 and she made the argument
00:44:44.040 that all these
00:44:44.640 gender-critical feminists
00:44:45.880 think it's quite brilliant
00:44:47.080 that someone like me,
00:44:49.320 you know,
00:44:49.560 I'm critical of transgenderism,
00:44:51.620 but I don't understand
00:44:52.380 that as a proponent
00:44:53.920 of gender roles,
00:44:56.380 I'm actually,
00:44:57.420 you know,
00:44:58.960 setting the stage
00:44:59.920 for transgenderism.
00:45:01.480 And so that's where
00:45:02.080 the conversation went,
00:45:02.900 which I think is very interesting
00:45:03.680 because what they don't understand
00:45:04.920 is that among feminism's
00:45:07.040 many sins,
00:45:08.320 it is the thing
00:45:10.040 that actually set the stage
00:45:11.940 for transgenderism.
00:45:12.860 Clearly the logical
00:45:14.640 and philosophical line
00:45:16.000 and historical line
00:45:16.940 is directly from feminism
00:45:18.220 to transgenderism.
00:45:19.220 I mean,
00:45:19.340 there's just no question about that.
00:45:20.260 Julie Smith Firestone
00:45:20.860 was writing about transgenderism
00:45:21.940 in the early 1970s.
00:45:23.080 Right.
00:45:23.700 Like the statement you're making,
00:45:27.000 which is on a purely
00:45:27.460 philosophical level,
00:45:28.340 which is that feminism
00:45:29.100 in obliterating gender roles
00:45:30.600 has made clear
00:45:31.280 that men can be women
00:45:32.060 and women can be men
00:45:32.720 because if there are no actual roles,
00:45:34.080 then how exactly
00:45:34.740 can't you be, right?
00:45:35.900 Gender non-binary
00:45:36.540 is the status quo.
00:45:38.020 Then put that aside,
00:45:39.720 just on a purely historic level,
00:45:41.640 the line of thinking
00:45:42.620 goes from essentially
00:45:44.240 Betteford and
00:45:44.800 to the next stage,
00:45:45.900 Shulamith Firestone,
00:45:47.000 forward to trans ideology.
00:45:49.000 I mean,
00:45:49.340 Shulamith Firestone
00:45:50.800 literally writes
00:45:51.480 an entire paper
00:45:52.040 about how this is the case,
00:45:53.040 how in the future
00:45:53.720 men will be able
00:45:54.840 to have babies
00:45:55.340 and women will be the ones
00:45:56.300 who are inseminating them
00:45:57.040 and all of this kind of stuff.
00:45:57.960 I mean,
00:45:58.120 so that's in 1970s.
00:46:00.120 So like,
00:46:00.480 they're just wrong,
00:46:01.140 factually speaking.
00:46:01.820 And one of the points
00:46:03.720 I made to Helen
00:46:05.040 is a really obvious one
00:46:06.980 that if traditional gender roles
00:46:09.340 lead to transgenderism,
00:46:11.760 well,
00:46:11.880 traditional gender roles
00:46:12.900 existed across the entire world.
00:46:15.440 They were the only thing
00:46:16.240 that existed
00:46:16.720 for thousands of years
00:46:18.240 and yet transgenderism
00:46:19.760 did not exist
00:46:20.400 in any of these cultures.
00:46:21.800 And if you go even now,
00:46:23.360 as we did in the film,
00:46:24.240 and go to cultures
00:46:24.920 that still have
00:46:26.000 these so-called
00:46:26.460 traditional gender roles,
00:46:27.400 they've never even heard
00:46:28.240 of this stuff.
00:46:28.880 And feminism comes along
00:46:30.400 and like a second later,
00:46:32.200 you've got transgenderism.
00:46:33.320 So it seems like
00:46:33.700 by the way,
00:46:34.140 just on the Oppenheimer note,
00:46:35.500 since you tied it
00:46:36.360 into this tweet,
00:46:37.180 Oppenheimer was a communist
00:46:37.940 and they should have denied
00:46:39.180 his security clearance.
00:46:40.360 But he was not,
00:46:41.140 but he was not a,
00:46:41.920 he was not an official communist.
00:46:43.440 So this is under,
00:46:45.140 this is under serious,
00:46:46.260 so did you,
00:46:46.740 there's a letter,
00:46:47.360 there's a letter,
00:46:48.260 there's a letter from a Soviet agent
00:46:49.780 to Lorente Beria
00:46:50.840 in 1944,
00:46:52.660 I believe,
00:46:53.280 talking about how
00:46:54.520 Oppenheimer was a funnel
00:46:56.320 for information
00:46:57.040 for the Soviets.
00:46:58.460 And, you know,
00:46:59.300 whether that's true
00:47:00.220 or whether that's false,
00:47:01.060 there's no question
00:47:01.960 that every single person,
00:47:03.060 like, in terms of
00:47:03.920 was he a security risk?
00:47:05.260 Every single person
00:47:05.880 he hung out with
00:47:06.680 was like a card-carrying member
00:47:07.860 of the Communist Party.
00:47:08.800 Yeah.
00:47:09.040 Do you want that guy
00:47:09.700 having access to like all your,
00:47:10.840 I mean, I understand
00:47:11.500 why you do it
00:47:12.120 in the middle of World War II
00:47:13.080 where you have to win,
00:47:14.220 but after that,
00:47:15.280 there's a pretty good case
00:47:15.920 that at that point
00:47:16.320 you're like,
00:47:16.580 you know,
00:47:16.740 thanks for the service,
00:47:17.500 I really,
00:47:18.120 it's,
00:47:19.040 the thing about Oppenheimer,
00:47:20.840 that's really fascinating,
00:47:21.680 only two of us have seen it,
00:47:22.720 is that every argument
00:47:23.640 that is made by Oppenheimer's
00:47:24.900 opponents is correct.
00:47:26.020 Every single one of them, right?
00:47:26.980 They argue that the hydrogen bomb
00:47:28.280 is going to be necessary
00:47:29.440 because the Soviets
00:47:30.080 will develop it
00:47:30.720 without us developing it.
00:47:32.320 They argue that
00:47:32.720 mutually assured destruction
00:47:33.480 is going to prevent mass death,
00:47:34.500 which it did.
00:47:35.280 If you look at the number
00:47:35.820 of war deaths
00:47:36.440 in the first half
00:47:37.020 of the 20th century
00:47:37.660 versus the last half
00:47:38.360 of the 20th century,
00:47:39.460 it plummets.
00:47:40.220 I mean,
00:47:40.480 America loses 400,000 men
00:47:42.300 during World War II
00:47:43.060 and now in a typical
00:47:44.600 really horrific war
00:47:45.800 like Afghanistan,
00:47:46.440 we lose 2,400 men.
00:47:47.900 Things are just
00:47:48.660 radically different.
00:47:49.460 Oh, going to a physicist
00:47:51.220 for your politics
00:47:52.400 is like quite a comedian.
00:47:53.280 This is the part
00:47:54.280 with the movie
00:47:54.760 that I actually,
00:47:55.240 and I really enjoyed it
00:47:56.360 and I thought,
00:47:56.900 enjoy is not the right word.
00:47:59.420 It's a fascinating movie.
00:48:00.720 It's a really fascinating movie.
00:48:01.260 It also has some
00:48:01.820 of the best acting
00:48:02.500 I've seen.
00:48:03.260 The acting is spectacular.
00:48:04.760 The cinematography
00:48:05.380 is amazing.
00:48:06.380 The fact that Nolan
00:48:07.400 is a movie god
00:48:08.600 in the sense that
00:48:09.100 he can make a three-hour film
00:48:10.540 with one explosion
00:48:12.060 and make hundreds
00:48:13.060 of millions of dollars
00:48:13.780 at the box office.
00:48:14.280 And I have to say,
00:48:15.620 I hate three-hour films
00:48:16.580 on principle.
00:48:17.280 I think there should be
00:48:17.940 a federal law against them.
00:48:19.220 It went by.
00:48:19.980 Yeah,
00:48:20.220 the first hour of it
00:48:21.420 is unbelievably compelling.
00:48:22.920 You know,
00:48:23.360 I,
00:48:24.220 sorry to cut you off,
00:48:25.120 but I think,
00:48:26.000 you know,
00:48:26.160 obviously we're talking
00:48:26.760 about Oppenheimer
00:48:27.260 and the atom bomb
00:48:28.000 was rough for Japan,
00:48:29.660 but one thing
00:48:30.300 that's rough
00:48:30.740 for a lot of people
00:48:31.500 is dark spots
00:48:32.340 on their skin.
00:48:33.220 Too true.
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00:48:59.160 Mathis,
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00:50:06.360 I hope you've enjoyed
00:50:06.980 being an owner
00:50:07.500 of the Daily Wire
00:50:08.040 in the HR lawsuit
00:50:09.020 Mathis is about
00:50:09.640 to file against you.
00:50:11.000 He's going to remove
00:50:11.620 all your equity.
00:50:12.600 It was short-lived
00:50:13.240 but it was worth it.
00:50:14.380 Speaking of people
00:50:15.220 who don't look very good,
00:50:16.660 Hunter Biden
00:50:17.220 did not look very good
00:50:18.520 this week
00:50:19.000 when his business
00:50:20.220 associate testified
00:50:21.300 behind a closed door
00:50:22.420 that he did in fact
00:50:25.560 chat with Joe Biden
00:50:26.860 about his business
00:50:27.460 and that Joe Biden
00:50:28.180 not only was aware
00:50:29.620 of his business dealings
00:50:30.460 which he already knew
00:50:31.000 but was actually on
00:50:32.640 more than 20 phone calls
00:50:35.000 with these crooks
00:50:36.420 that Hunter Biden
00:50:37.660 was shaking down
00:50:38.300 on behalf of
00:50:38.840 the Biden crime family.
00:50:40.480 I'm a little doomer
00:50:42.220 about the whole thing.
00:50:43.020 I'm just a little
00:50:43.700 I kind of think
00:50:45.220 it doesn't matter
00:50:46.040 oh yeah Biden's corrupt
00:50:47.360 and he's
00:50:48.060 does it
00:50:48.980 is it going to change
00:50:49.820 you think it does?
00:50:50.980 It does.
00:50:51.560 You know first of all
00:50:52.100 the polls on these things
00:50:53.080 that show that people
00:50:53.620 don't care
00:50:54.140 they can crater like that
00:50:55.560 they can
00:50:56.080 they disappear
00:50:57.380 Watergate was like this
00:50:58.820 nobody cared about Watergate
00:50:59.780 until everybody cared
00:51:00.640 about Watergate
00:51:01.140 and I think that
00:51:01.980 this is the kind of thing
00:51:02.960 look the press can cover this up
00:51:05.220 and they have covered it up
00:51:06.120 the DOJ can hide it
00:51:07.200 they have hidden it
00:51:08.760 the Democrats can say
00:51:09.860 it doesn't exist
00:51:10.360 but it does
00:51:11.020 and it means that
00:51:12.780 when somebody runs
00:51:14.120 against Joe Biden
00:51:15.220 and this is why
00:51:16.380 I'm still doubtful
00:51:17.680 that he's going to be
00:51:18.240 the candidate
00:51:18.680 you can't keep them
00:51:20.540 from pointing this out
00:51:22.040 relentlessly
00:51:22.880 if it's Trump
00:51:23.420 it'll be relentless
00:51:24.040 if it's DeSantis
00:51:24.840 it'll be relentless
00:51:25.560 and that's why I think
00:51:27.020 the way that the election
00:51:30.180 looks right now
00:51:30.900 has nothing to do
00:51:31.820 with the way the election
00:51:32.540 is going to look
00:51:33.280 in the end
00:51:33.720 it might be
00:51:34.940 a Trump-Biden contest
00:51:36.500 but there's every reason
00:51:37.740 to think that Biden
00:51:38.420 won't be in it
00:51:39.020 and it's possible
00:51:40.060 that even Trump
00:51:40.700 won't be in it
00:51:41.480 wow
00:51:41.740 you're always such an optimist
00:51:43.180 that's what I love about you Drew
00:51:44.440 but yes it makes a difference
00:51:46.840 and the reason it makes a difference
00:51:47.820 is because Joe
00:51:49.420 Trump has nowhere to fall
00:51:51.920 as I've said for literally
00:51:53.520 at this point
00:51:54.400 seven, eight years
00:51:55.080 Donald Trump's a mud monster
00:51:56.680 he's made of mud
00:51:57.460 the more mud you throw on him
00:51:58.420 the more he's made of mud
00:51:59.280 and so like you say
00:52:00.420 Donald Trump is a stooge
00:52:01.460 with the Russians
00:52:01.860 and he's like okay
00:52:02.580 and he's not
00:52:04.480 I mean he clearly is not
00:52:05.320 but it doesn't matter
00:52:05.760 you can throw that stuff at him
00:52:06.620 and it just doesn't have any impact
00:52:07.960 when Joe Biden ran
00:52:10.540 as I'm restoring
00:52:11.440 honor to the Oval Office
00:52:13.660 and cleanliness
00:52:14.340 and we're getting past the corruption
00:52:15.340 we're getting back
00:52:15.960 past the Trump
00:52:17.520 and the evil corrupt time
00:52:20.460 and all of this kind of stuff
00:52:21.560 and his character
00:52:23.460 is now an issue in the election
00:52:25.000 and it wasn't really an issue
00:52:26.360 in the election in 2020
00:52:27.160 it should have been
00:52:27.820 because he actually is a venal
00:52:28.880 and corrupt guy
00:52:29.340 and has been
00:52:29.720 for literally his entire career
00:52:30.800 he's a scumbag
00:52:31.940 he's a bad guy
00:52:32.860 he's been a bad guy
00:52:33.860 his entire career
00:52:34.480 but that
00:52:35.540 he got away with it
00:52:36.760 because on the other side
00:52:37.960 of the aisle
00:52:38.240 was Donald Trump
00:52:38.780 and everybody had already established
00:52:39.900 that Donald Trump
00:52:40.360 was of course
00:52:40.760 the worst sinner
00:52:41.200 who had ever sinned
00:52:41.780 and so now
00:52:43.440 there's so much mud
00:52:45.020 on Hunter
00:52:45.900 on Joe's
00:52:47.000 this by the way
00:52:47.920 is the reason why
00:52:48.360 he suddenly acknowledged
00:52:49.020 his seventh grandchild
00:52:49.760 because his final defense
00:52:51.080 in all this is going to be
00:52:51.880 I just love my family too much
00:52:52.960 they've moved the goalposts
00:52:54.420 the goalposts went from
00:52:55.120 I've never heard of my son's businesses
00:52:56.320 to I was never on calls
00:52:57.980 with my son's friends
00:52:58.940 to I'm not in business
00:53:00.920 with my son
00:53:01.660 and eventually
00:53:02.540 this is going to move to
00:53:03.460 of course I was in business
00:53:04.340 with my son
00:53:04.680 he was suffering
00:53:05.180 he was a crack addict
00:53:05.900 I love him too much
00:53:07.000 and then the comeback
00:53:07.920 by us was going to be
00:53:09.320 oh really
00:53:10.020 so if you're a member
00:53:10.780 of the family
00:53:11.260 then presumably
00:53:11.880 you love that person
00:53:12.760 and you take care of them
00:53:13.480 so why are you disowning
00:53:14.160 the seventh grandchild
00:53:14.920 and so he's preemptively
00:53:16.360 cutting that up
00:53:17.180 by saying
00:53:18.340 look now all of a sudden
00:53:19.820 I have a seventh
00:53:21.020 and I love this seventh grandchild
00:53:22.380 I love this seventh grandchild
00:53:23.460 by the way
00:53:24.000 it is by far
00:53:24.940 that that issue
00:53:25.940 must have been pulling terribly
00:53:27.120 which is why Maureen Dowd
00:53:28.000 was writing pieces about it
00:53:29.540 in the New York Times
00:53:30.120 which is the only
00:53:30.880 feedback channel
00:53:31.900 that Joe Biden
00:53:32.580 actually cares about
00:53:33.800 yeah it matters
00:53:34.680 and it matters
00:53:35.080 mainly in terms of turnout
00:53:36.200 the turnout is the way
00:53:37.440 that Biden loses the election
00:53:38.340 turnout
00:53:38.940 if the 150 people
00:53:41.240 show up to
00:53:41.660 150 million people
00:53:42.880 show up to vote
00:53:43.300 the way they did
00:53:43.680 in the last election cycle
00:53:44.500 Trump loses to Biden
00:53:45.360 if it goes back
00:53:46.540 to 130 million
00:53:47.640 140
00:53:48.380 135 million
00:53:49.740 Trump could easily sneak by
00:53:51.560 and this is the kind of thing
00:53:52.480 by the way
00:53:52.860 to be fair to Maureen Dowd
00:53:54.220 she has always been
00:53:55.140 really good on issues like this
00:53:56.360 she was good when Clinton
00:53:57.200 yeah that's right
00:53:58.000 and she's
00:53:58.840 this is what she stands up for
00:54:00.220 the defense
00:54:01.300 that was put forward
00:54:02.100 by Dan Goldman here
00:54:03.000 which was
00:54:03.600 that Joe was only
00:54:05.480 on the phone
00:54:05.880 talking about weather
00:54:06.660 is the most absurd defense
00:54:08.880 I think I have ever heard
00:54:10.700 I mean it's like
00:54:11.260 there are people laughing
00:54:12.300 at Donald Trump's
00:54:12.860 classified documents defenses
00:54:13.820 and frankly I think
00:54:14.820 deservedly in many cases
00:54:16.080 because they're silly
00:54:16.740 that it was golf plans
00:54:17.720 that he was waving around
00:54:18.400 Bedminster and so forth
00:54:19.260 that is not even remotely
00:54:20.940 in the same ballpark
00:54:21.760 in terms of just
00:54:22.660 embarrassingly bad defense
00:54:23.900 as the
00:54:24.700 he only was on the phone
00:54:26.240 with Hunter
00:54:26.840 during business meetings
00:54:27.860 to talk about the weather
00:54:28.800 as I said on the show today
00:54:30.020 like I'll be in business meetings
00:54:30.900 all the time
00:54:31.340 and my dad will call
00:54:32.100 because I'm really tight
00:54:32.560 with my dad
00:54:32.940 and you know what happens
00:54:34.120 either I don't pick up the phone
00:54:35.100 because I'm in a business meeting
00:54:35.880 and I text him
00:54:36.520 I'll call you back in a few
00:54:37.340 or I say
00:54:38.400 it might be an emergency guys
00:54:39.420 excuse me for a second
00:54:40.260 I walk out of the room
00:54:40.980 and I take the phone call
00:54:41.580 with my father
00:54:42.040 or I get on the phone
00:54:42.840 I say dad I'm sorry
00:54:43.540 I can't talk right now
00:54:44.240 hey pops everything good
00:54:45.320 okay fine bye
00:54:46.220 exactly
00:54:46.680 I'll tell you exactly
00:54:47.940 how these meetings went
00:54:48.580 and we all know how they went
00:54:49.400 the way these meetings went
00:54:50.380 is that Hunter Biden said
00:54:51.500 to the board of Burisma
00:54:52.500 I want $83,000
00:54:53.700 to help broker a deal
00:54:54.680 to get rid of Victor Shokan here
00:54:55.820 and they said
00:54:57.080 oh really
00:54:57.560 what can you do for us
00:54:58.540 and he said
00:54:58.780 well I am super tight
00:54:59.780 with my father
00:55:00.280 the vice president
00:55:00.840 of the United States
00:55:01.680 who's in charge of Ukraine policy
00:55:02.920 in fact we're so tight
00:55:03.680 that he picks up
00:55:04.200 every time I call the phone
00:55:05.140 watch
00:55:05.720 and then he picks up the phone
00:55:06.660 and he calls Joe
00:55:07.300 and he says
00:55:08.020 hi dad
00:55:08.740 I'm here with the partners
00:55:09.880 here at Burisma
00:55:10.880 say hello
00:55:12.120 oh hi
00:55:12.860 how's the weather over there in Kiev
00:55:14.060 that's great dad
00:55:15.000 I hope you're doing well
00:55:15.940 and I'll talk to you soon
00:55:16.940 click
00:55:17.400 end of conversation
00:55:18.360 because you've heard
00:55:19.100 the new defense of this is
00:55:20.340 no
00:55:21.420 these corrupt
00:55:22.920 Ukrainian businessmen
00:55:24.180 they didn't have access
00:55:25.880 to Joe Biden
00:55:27.040 they only had the illusion
00:55:28.600 of access
00:55:29.280 to which I say
00:55:30.520 that's called access
00:55:31.740 what's the difference
00:55:32.660 that's called access
00:55:33.400 that's like the guy
00:55:35.260 who's there to shake down
00:55:36.080 the bartender
00:55:36.640 and he calls up Al Capone
00:55:38.400 he says
00:55:38.740 you know Al
00:55:39.340 how's everything going over there
00:55:40.340 Al Capone picked up the phone
00:55:41.360 and he's like
00:55:41.800 oh it's going great
00:55:42.580 how are you
00:55:42.980 and he's like
00:55:43.260 well it's going great
00:55:43.800 and they hang up the phone
00:55:44.560 and then he turns to the guy
00:55:45.520 and he says
00:55:45.860 so it'll be $10,000
00:55:46.940 yeah exactly
00:55:48.040 or your bar burns down
00:55:49.000 and by the way
00:55:49.900 this defense
00:55:50.480 this defense that I never spoke
00:55:52.200 to my son about his business
00:55:53.300 is not actually a defense
00:55:54.740 if you went on the air
00:55:56.000 one day and suddenly said
00:55:57.140 you know abortion isn't so bad
00:55:58.700 your father would show up
00:55:59.800 at the door
00:56:00.900 and say you know
00:56:01.740 Ben I think you're making
00:56:02.760 a mistake here
00:56:03.460 because you're close to
00:56:04.620 Joe Biden is an enabler
00:56:05.600 okay
00:56:05.960 this is the other problem here
00:56:07.040 is that his entire case
00:56:08.100 is I love my son so much
00:56:09.160 that I do everything for my son
00:56:10.300 and my son is great
00:56:11.000 and all this kind of stuff
00:56:11.700 his son is a crack addict
00:56:13.240 the first rule of people
00:56:14.360 in your family
00:56:15.040 who have a drug addiction
00:56:15.740 is you deny them access
00:56:16.860 to money
00:56:17.320 is literally the first thing
00:56:18.900 you do
00:56:19.120 you do not provide them
00:56:20.000 access to large sums of capital
00:56:21.460 like $83,000
00:56:22.620 beyond that
00:56:23.420 it is beyond me
00:56:25.300 how the most smoking gun
00:56:26.880 of any smoking gun
00:56:27.980 in this entire story
00:56:29.040 is right out there
00:56:30.060 in the open
00:56:30.400 and everybody just pretends
00:56:31.220 it doesn't exist
00:56:31.720 which is a text
00:56:32.480 from Hunter Biden
00:56:33.280 to his daughter Naomi
00:56:34.580 in 2019
00:56:35.560 saying
00:56:36.460 at least you don't have
00:56:38.280 to pay my bills
00:56:39.020 the way I pay dad's bills
00:56:40.360 he literally says that
00:56:41.480 in a text message
00:56:42.120 do you think that he just
00:56:42.920 made that up
00:56:43.560 he literally says
00:56:45.020 I'm paying this entire
00:56:45.680 family's bills
00:56:46.260 and I pay pop's bills
00:56:47.360 but you know
00:56:47.740 just in terms of a timeline
00:56:49.480 Obama
00:56:50.400 who by the way
00:56:51.620 I've always said
00:56:52.200 was not money corrupt
00:56:53.320 Obama was too much
00:56:54.860 power corrupt
00:56:55.380 he was too much
00:56:56.100 of an ideologue
00:56:56.800 to be money corrupt
00:56:57.580 but Obama
00:56:58.980 puts Biden
00:57:00.180 in charge
00:57:01.260 of Ukraine corruption
00:57:02.600 and then Hunter Biden
00:57:04.440 has a job
00:57:05.300 at Burisma
00:57:05.940 and Biden doesn't
00:57:07.060 call him up
00:57:07.460 and say
00:57:07.680 no
00:57:08.260 I'm sorry
00:57:08.880 don't do that
00:57:09.580 that's a bad thing
00:57:10.660 and so they really are
00:57:11.920 in a kind of dance
00:57:12.680 of blackmail
00:57:13.260 the two of them
00:57:13.840 I think that they are
00:57:15.040 in a very very intense
00:57:16.380 criminal relationship
00:57:17.580 which
00:57:18.260 in which Biden
00:57:19.580 Joe Biden
00:57:20.300 may not be the power broker
00:57:21.700 you know
00:57:22.200 Hunter Biden
00:57:22.800 in a lot of ways
00:57:23.920 can say to him
00:57:24.600 you know
00:57:25.060 you got to keep me close
00:57:25.980 because if you don't
00:57:26.920 I'm going to tell the truth
00:57:28.100 you know
00:57:28.560 I think this is a very
00:57:29.460 complicated relationship
00:57:30.460 but the one thing
00:57:31.100 it's not
00:57:31.600 is clean
00:57:32.120 the one thing it's not
00:57:33.160 is just talking about
00:57:34.120 the weather
00:57:34.440 right
00:57:34.920 right
00:57:35.340 although I do love
00:57:35.940 that guy
00:57:36.220 that Goldman
00:57:36.920 he's
00:57:37.200 he's my favorite
00:57:38.640 he's really
00:57:39.320 hummina hummina hummina
00:57:40.100 now
00:57:40.820 let's say
00:57:42.380 Biden's out of it
00:57:43.120 then the alternatives are
00:57:44.560 Gavin Newsom
00:57:45.240 Gavin Newsom for sure
00:57:46.860 he's the
00:57:47.660 Whitmer
00:57:48.420 Buttigieg wants it
00:57:49.700 he's not going to get it
00:57:50.340 and then Kamala
00:57:51.100 did you see Kamala
00:57:51.960 came out this week
00:57:53.260 and attacked
00:57:54.380 Ron DeSantis
00:57:55.360 over the most
00:57:57.740 it was probably
00:57:58.780 her best performance
00:57:59.660 because she seemed
00:58:00.180 almost human here
00:58:00.980 but it was such a
00:58:02.900 ridiculous accusation
00:58:04.580 here she is
00:58:05.060 this is unnecessary
00:58:07.820 to debate
00:58:09.160 whether
00:58:09.920 enslaved people
00:58:11.500 benefited from slavery
00:58:12.700 are you kidding me
00:58:13.740 are we supposed
00:58:16.460 to debate that
00:58:17.700 let us not be
00:58:22.200 distracted
00:58:23.080 by what they're
00:58:25.300 trying to do
00:58:26.480 which is to
00:58:27.440 create
00:58:28.060 unnecessary
00:58:29.440 debates
00:58:30.320 to divide
00:58:31.300 our country
00:58:31.780 oh my god
00:58:33.560 so what was
00:58:34.100 oh the projection
00:58:34.840 oh the projection
00:58:35.920 this is your governor
00:58:36.880 debates to divide
00:58:37.820 the country
00:58:38.260 yeah
00:58:38.660 so this is your governor
00:58:39.620 he's being accused
00:58:40.340 of implementing
00:58:41.400 new standards
00:58:42.800 in education
00:58:43.580 that say that
00:58:44.480 black people
00:58:45.140 really actually
00:58:46.440 benefited
00:58:47.080 by the way
00:58:47.440 that's not what it said
00:58:48.300 not being accused
00:58:49.320 not just by
00:58:49.780 Kamala Harris
00:58:51.300 but by other
00:58:52.100 Republicans
00:58:52.520 which is the
00:58:54.740 much bigger
00:58:55.320 problem here
00:58:55.840 okay what does
00:58:56.340 the actual
00:58:56.800 standard say
00:58:57.360 what it actually
00:58:58.020 says is that
00:58:58.760 some slaves
00:58:59.480 learned skills
00:59:00.200 that they could
00:59:00.720 actively use
00:59:01.760 to their own
00:59:02.180 benefit post-slavery
00:59:03.220 while they were
00:59:03.740 slaves
00:59:04.060 which is not
00:59:04.460 a statement
00:59:04.760 about the
00:59:05.080 wonders of
00:59:05.460 slavery
00:59:05.720 it's a statement
00:59:06.800 about the
00:59:07.180 durability
00:59:07.700 and the human
00:59:09.420 heroism
00:59:10.060 of slaves
00:59:10.880 and it's one
00:59:11.420 line
00:59:11.700 one line
00:59:12.540 in 212
00:59:13.300 but the line
00:59:13.800 isn't even bad
00:59:14.300 it's in the AP
00:59:14.860 standards
00:59:15.280 it's literally
00:59:16.000 in the AP
00:59:16.480 standards
00:59:16.800 the AP standards
00:59:17.500 say that
00:59:17.880 slaves learned
00:59:18.560 skills
00:59:19.000 that they
00:59:19.460 then put
00:59:19.860 to use
00:59:20.180 for their
00:59:20.460 own benefit
00:59:20.900 afterward
00:59:21.540 it's exactly
00:59:22.180 the same
00:59:22.480 it's an up
00:59:22.700 from slavery
00:59:23.220 by Booker
00:59:23.740 Washington
00:59:24.000 they did
00:59:24.260 the same
00:59:24.560 thing
00:59:25.700 to Greg
00:59:26.400 Gutfeld
00:59:26.840 when he said
00:59:27.620 that Jews
00:59:28.740 survived by
00:59:30.640 being useful
00:59:31.180 the narrative
00:59:33.040 that Greg
00:59:33.740 is somehow
00:59:34.860 appeasing the
00:59:35.840 Holocaust
00:59:36.120 saying the
00:59:36.860 Holocaust
00:59:37.120 was a good
00:59:37.640 thing
00:59:37.900 is such a
00:59:38.700 childish
00:59:39.260 narrative
00:59:39.760 and the
00:59:40.080 narrative
00:59:40.480 that DeSantis
00:59:41.560 is pro-slavery
00:59:42.720 is so childish
00:59:43.340 in any other
00:59:43.880 context we recognize
00:59:44.660 this as a
00:59:45.140 tribute to the
00:59:45.740 person
00:59:46.020 like if there's
00:59:46.500 a story
00:59:46.860 I read
00:59:47.400 recently
00:59:47.600 there's a
00:59:47.880 story about
00:59:48.320 a man
00:59:50.560 in the
00:59:50.740 Holocaust
00:59:51.020 that learned
00:59:51.380 how to
00:59:51.960 sew
00:59:52.380 and then
00:59:53.100 later went
00:59:53.640 on to become
00:59:54.040 a world
00:59:54.300 famous tailor
00:59:54.940 using that
00:59:55.940 skill
00:59:56.220 and usually
00:59:56.600 if you wrote
00:59:58.060 a biography
00:59:58.660 of that man
00:59:59.380 not only would
01:00:00.140 you mention
01:00:00.560 that but that's
01:00:01.160 one of the
01:00:01.560 central facts
01:00:02.420 in the midst
01:00:03.980 of trial and
01:00:04.640 tribulation
01:00:05.120 you're able to
01:00:05.600 take something
01:00:06.140 and then use
01:00:07.360 that for success
01:00:08.020 later in life
01:00:08.680 and I think
01:00:09.080 everyone of course
01:00:09.700 understands
01:00:10.080 by the way
01:00:10.380 we were literally
01:00:11.460 told that that's
01:00:12.120 the story of
01:00:12.740 George Soros
01:00:13.880 that he learned
01:00:15.420 to basically
01:00:16.020 survive
01:00:16.420 and that those
01:00:16.800 survival skills
01:00:17.440 then translated
01:00:18.120 into his massive
01:00:19.040 wealth later on
01:00:20.140 because during the
01:00:20.780 Holocaust he was
01:00:21.440 actually like you
01:00:22.200 know finding objects
01:00:23.140 from killed Jews
01:00:24.260 and he was selling
01:00:24.880 them and and this
01:00:26.180 was a part of his
01:00:27.380 his kind of hero's
01:00:28.280 journey so the whole
01:00:29.520 thing is made up
01:00:30.600 nonsense
01:00:30.960 part of it is
01:00:34.580 is obviously
01:00:35.540 this is an attempt
01:00:36.160 to attack the
01:00:36.800 Santas is what
01:00:37.360 about but it's
01:00:37.800 also when it
01:00:38.580 comes to slavery
01:00:39.180 in particular
01:00:39.780 we've gotten to
01:00:41.240 the point now
01:00:41.800 where it's just
01:00:42.320 you're not allowed
01:00:43.060 to say anything
01:00:44.100 about it at all
01:00:45.320 other than it
01:00:46.200 was very bad
01:00:46.780 white people did
01:00:47.840 it was bad
01:00:48.380 and that's the
01:00:48.860 end of the
01:00:49.320 conversation about
01:00:50.000 slavery and if
01:00:51.060 you attempt to
01:00:51.640 expand it beyond
01:00:53.460 that in any
01:00:54.600 amount whatsoever
01:00:55.360 in tribute to
01:00:56.340 the slaves
01:00:56.780 right
01:00:57.080 and then it's
01:00:57.680 then it's
01:00:58.020 super duper
01:00:58.380 also to say
01:00:59.260 it was a black
01:01:00.480 historian
01:01:00.920 who wrote
01:01:01.340 these standards
01:01:01.820 that's correct
01:01:04.980 it's it's it's
01:01:05.840 really a point
01:01:07.080 of high irritation
01:01:07.600 but the media
01:01:08.100 are so invested
01:01:09.040 in the gaslighting
01:01:09.780 at this point
01:01:10.260 the other
01:01:11.040 republican candidates
01:01:11.880 who went after
01:01:12.360 this are so
01:01:13.120 it's so disreputable
01:01:14.720 it's so gross
01:01:15.620 to try and prop
01:01:16.900 up and what I
01:01:17.800 find amazing
01:01:18.280 about this is
01:01:18.800 that apparently
01:01:19.440 it's okay to do
01:01:20.340 against any other
01:01:20.900 republican you can't
01:01:21.600 do it against
01:01:21.900 trump right you
01:01:23.300 can't even say
01:01:23.740 true things about
01:01:24.340 trump but if you
01:01:25.360 say false things
01:01:26.160 about ronda
01:01:26.640 santus then
01:01:27.280 everybody just
01:01:27.660 kind of goes
01:01:27.920 well that's the
01:01:28.600 that's the name
01:01:29.060 of the game
01:01:29.420 that's that's
01:01:30.020 totally okay
01:01:30.520 you know
01:01:30.840 and I find
01:01:31.260 that I find
01:01:31.700 that really
01:01:32.140 different
01:01:32.380 imagine if
01:01:32.900 tim scott
01:01:33.440 came out
01:01:33.900 and called
01:01:34.380 and accused
01:01:35.180 trump of being
01:01:35.780 essentially racist
01:01:36.700 oh my god
01:01:37.400 everybody on the
01:01:37.980 right would
01:01:38.260 he'd be killed
01:01:39.400 by everybody
01:01:39.760 on the right
01:01:40.040 that's a good
01:01:40.760 point
01:01:40.940 but you could
01:01:41.240 do it against
01:01:41.620 de santus
01:01:42.260 but part of
01:01:43.040 that look
01:01:43.420 if it's a
01:01:44.300 campaign and
01:01:44.840 a campaign is
01:01:45.420 lobbying an
01:01:45.820 attack on
01:01:46.200 another campaign
01:01:46.880 you know
01:01:48.160 all is fair
01:01:48.800 in love and
01:01:49.360 war and
01:01:49.720 politics
01:01:50.200 but my fear
01:01:51.820 is if any
01:01:52.880 republicans are
01:01:53.820 sincerely making
01:01:55.480 this attack
01:01:55.980 it's so preposterous
01:01:56.680 and it cuts
01:01:57.240 at a deeper
01:01:57.700 level too
01:01:58.260 which is something
01:01:58.800 that has been
01:01:59.560 accepted by the
01:02:00.200 left and
01:02:01.060 unfortunately maybe
01:02:02.320 parts of the
01:02:02.800 right too
01:02:03.260 which is this
01:02:04.080 idea that
01:02:04.640 suffering is
01:02:05.960 just always
01:02:06.780 the worst thing
01:02:07.920 ever
01:02:08.120 morally evil
01:02:08.840 you know
01:02:09.540 many of the
01:02:10.480 moments when we
01:02:11.200 most grow
01:02:12.020 when we become
01:02:13.120 edified and
01:02:13.720 sanctified are in
01:02:15.020 our moments of
01:02:15.720 suffering in all
01:02:16.760 of our own lives
01:02:17.300 that doesn't make
01:02:17.760 the evil good
01:02:18.640 it doesn't alleviate
01:02:19.920 the responsibility
01:02:20.560 for the evil
01:02:21.260 it doesn't mean the
01:02:22.180 person who is doing
01:02:22.760 the evil to you
01:02:23.420 is somehow doing
01:02:24.020 you a favor
01:02:24.460 it's a ridiculous
01:02:26.560 ridiculous
01:02:27.020 are you saying
01:02:27.600 that slavery
01:02:28.080 was a program
01:02:28.820 that was meant
01:02:29.260 to help black
01:02:30.340 people grow
01:02:30.940 hold on
01:02:31.960 did I just
01:02:32.640 did media matters
01:02:33.480 just point out
01:02:34.320 that I said
01:02:34.920 that I love
01:02:35.440 slavery
01:02:35.960 really pro
01:02:37.380 slavery
01:02:38.860 or something
01:02:39.300 yeah
01:02:39.520 no I mean
01:02:40.060 that is so
01:02:41.200 disingenuous
01:02:42.160 now of course
01:02:43.040 the campaigns
01:02:43.680 are all going
01:02:44.060 to use this
01:02:44.480 they're all going
01:02:44.820 to try to
01:02:45.100 attack each other
01:02:45.680 and you make
01:02:46.440 a very good
01:02:47.180 point which is
01:02:47.680 that the attacks
01:02:48.900 on Trump right
01:02:49.560 now are not
01:02:50.140 forgiven quite so
01:02:51.100 easily as attacks
01:02:51.840 on the other
01:02:52.200 candidates notably
01:02:52.840 DeSantis who's
01:02:53.560 number two
01:02:54.220 but isn't that
01:02:54.880 just because
01:02:55.560 Trump is the
01:02:56.580 dominant frontrunner
01:02:57.520 right now
01:02:57.860 and so he's
01:02:58.240 got the mojo
01:02:58.840 it's it's because
01:03:00.280 any attack
01:03:01.420 on Trump
01:03:02.040 is perceived
01:03:02.740 by the right
01:03:03.620 as disingenuous
01:03:05.680 and an attack
01:03:06.400 on their
01:03:06.860 you're right
01:03:07.600 it's because
01:03:07.940 the frontrunner
01:03:08.340 but it's more
01:03:08.640 than that
01:03:08.980 Trump is
01:03:10.300 he is
01:03:11.660 I've come
01:03:12.380 to accept
01:03:12.800 this
01:03:13.040 he is
01:03:13.940 the greatest
01:03:14.500 instinctual
01:03:15.560 political
01:03:17.200 id factor
01:03:18.040 in the history
01:03:19.060 of politics
01:03:19.620 he really is
01:03:20.580 I mean
01:03:20.740 the guy
01:03:21.800 channels id
01:03:23.260 better than
01:03:23.680 anyone
01:03:24.120 ever
01:03:25.300 right
01:03:25.860 certainly
01:03:26.180 in electoral
01:03:26.580 politics
01:03:27.040 it is a
01:03:28.300 talent
01:03:28.580 it is a
01:03:29.060 skill
01:03:29.300 it's not
01:03:29.820 it is
01:03:30.280 instinctive
01:03:30.720 it's not
01:03:31.020 studied
01:03:31.380 he just
01:03:32.600 he has a
01:03:33.380 gift
01:03:33.680 for being
01:03:34.400 able to
01:03:34.780 get right
01:03:35.280 at what
01:03:35.720 people are
01:03:36.820 feeling
01:03:37.100 it's an
01:03:37.760 amazing
01:03:38.020 thing
01:03:38.340 and because
01:03:39.600 of that
01:03:40.060 visceral
01:03:40.600 connection
01:03:40.960 that he
01:03:41.200 has with
01:03:41.500 people
01:03:41.720 people also
01:03:42.460 feel a
01:03:42.760 visceral
01:03:42.980 connection
01:03:43.320 to defend
01:03:43.640 him
01:03:43.740 in a way
01:03:43.960 they don't
01:03:44.200 with DeSantis
01:03:44.620 they see
01:03:45.000 DeSantis
01:03:45.320 as a
01:03:45.940 professional
01:03:46.280 who gets
01:03:46.700 things done
01:03:47.180 and because
01:03:47.680 he's a
01:03:47.840 professional
01:03:48.120 who gets
01:03:48.440 things done
01:03:48.840 he can
01:03:49.080 take a
01:03:49.340 hit here
01:03:53.680 say the
01:03:54.120 thing
01:03:54.340 and Trump
01:03:54.640 says the
01:03:55.120 thing
01:03:55.340 that means
01:03:56.180 that if
01:03:56.600 he's attacked
01:03:57.220 you feel
01:03:57.820 personally
01:03:58.320 attacked
01:03:58.760 and wounded
01:03:59.100 and that
01:03:59.920 connection
01:04:00.280 is the
01:04:00.840 reason why
01:04:01.340 Trump is
01:04:01.820 leading the
01:04:02.320 field right
01:04:02.740 now
01:04:02.940 and what
01:04:03.280 that means
01:04:03.720 is that
01:04:04.380 unless Trump
01:04:05.160 stumbles
01:04:05.520 it's very
01:04:05.940 difficult to
01:04:06.260 see him
01:04:06.420 not being
01:04:06.680 the nominee
01:04:07.000 I want to
01:04:08.420 be the
01:04:08.660 minority
01:04:09.060 you think
01:04:09.580 he might
01:04:09.880 not be
01:04:10.120 the nominee
01:04:10.400 you think
01:04:11.400 he might
01:04:11.680 not be
01:04:11.940 the nominee
01:04:12.100 I won't
01:04:13.500 say that
01:04:13.860 I won't
01:04:14.080 go that
01:04:14.320 far
01:04:14.560 I can't
01:04:14.900 predict
01:04:15.060 the future
01:04:15.440 and he's
01:04:15.840 very far
01:04:16.380 ahead
01:04:16.640 but I
01:04:17.180 will say
01:04:17.780 that DeSantis
01:04:19.180 has started
01:04:19.700 to turn
01:04:20.140 himself
01:04:20.420 around
01:04:20.720 when he
01:04:21.120 came out
01:04:21.980 I was
01:04:22.700 very vocal
01:04:23.920 about the
01:04:24.440 fact that
01:04:24.760 he had
01:04:24.980 blown
01:04:25.380 the launch
01:04:26.040 of his
01:04:26.280 campaign
01:04:26.720 and that
01:04:27.260 he was
01:04:27.460 campaigning
01:04:27.960 badly
01:04:28.420 he's no
01:04:29.220 longer
01:04:29.540 campaigning
01:04:30.020 badly
01:04:30.340 he's actually
01:04:31.120 starting to
01:04:31.620 do some
01:04:31.940 very smart
01:04:32.580 stuff
01:04:32.940 and he
01:04:34.240 may be
01:04:34.580 a slow
01:04:35.020 burn
01:04:35.360 remember
01:04:36.120 at this
01:04:36.740 point
01:04:37.020 in the
01:04:37.640 primaries
01:04:38.280 Hillary
01:04:38.980 Clinton
01:04:39.260 wasn't
01:04:39.620 quite as
01:04:40.140 far
01:04:40.460 ahead of
01:04:41.420 Obama
01:04:41.780 as
01:04:42.240 Trump
01:04:42.600 is
01:04:42.880 but she
01:04:43.540 was far
01:04:44.000 ahead of
01:04:44.300 Obama
01:04:44.640 and Obama
01:04:45.160 was already
01:04:45.700 being counted
01:04:46.240 out
01:04:46.560 and I
01:04:47.320 think
01:04:47.740 you know
01:04:48.360 DeSantis
01:04:48.880 the more
01:04:50.220 you see
01:04:50.680 him
01:04:50.960 the better
01:04:52.020 you like
01:04:52.460 him
01:04:52.620 especially
01:04:53.180 in the
01:04:53.800 kind
01:04:54.060 of
01:04:54.180 conversation
01:04:54.640 he just
01:04:54.940 had
01:04:55.080 with
01:04:55.240 Brett
01:04:55.440 Baer
01:04:55.700 who went
01:04:56.300 after him
01:04:56.740 from the
01:04:57.140 left
01:04:57.320 Brett
01:04:57.520 Baer is
01:04:57.800 not a
01:04:58.020 leftist
01:04:58.300 but he
01:04:58.880 channeled
01:05:00.880 the left
01:05:01.140 wing
01:05:01.340 attacks
01:05:01.700 and DeSantis
01:05:02.580 handled them
01:05:03.240 professionally
01:05:04.040 and excellently
01:05:05.620 you know
01:05:06.460 there are
01:05:07.100 certain things
01:05:07.680 that he does
01:05:08.160 that he should
01:05:08.700 stop
01:05:09.100 the thing
01:05:09.500 with Florida
01:05:10.040 I've said
01:05:10.620 this before
01:05:11.380 but every
01:05:11.700 time he
01:05:11.900 mentions
01:05:12.100 Florida
01:05:12.460 I think
01:05:12.760 of band
01:05:13.160 camp
01:05:13.460 that one
01:05:14.260 time in
01:05:14.640 Florida
01:05:14.940 I think
01:05:16.160 he's got
01:05:16.620 to change
01:05:17.720 the way
01:05:17.920 he talks
01:05:18.320 a little bit
01:05:18.740 but he's
01:05:19.780 really good
01:05:20.680 at what
01:05:20.940 he's saying
01:05:21.420 and he
01:05:21.700 really knows
01:05:22.360 the issues
01:05:22.840 at a level
01:05:23.840 that Trump
01:05:24.360 simply doesn't
01:05:25.160 I think
01:05:25.480 that's going
01:05:26.280 to have a
01:05:27.060 long term
01:05:27.540 effect
01:05:27.840 I think
01:05:28.420 the only way
01:05:29.040 that changes
01:05:29.480 and I've
01:05:30.500 said this
01:05:30.840 out loud
01:05:31.600 many times
01:05:32.080 is
01:05:33.100 using the
01:05:34.980 Hillary-Obama
01:05:35.640 comparison
01:05:36.100 for a second
01:05:36.800 the reason
01:05:37.780 that Hillary
01:05:38.240 started to
01:05:39.080 collapse
01:05:39.520 in the polls
01:05:39.860 and Obama
01:05:40.180 started to
01:05:40.540 gain in the
01:05:40.820 polls
01:05:41.020 is because
01:05:41.420 there was
01:05:41.640 excitement
01:05:41.980 that was
01:05:42.240 built up
01:05:42.560 around Obama
01:05:43.080 and there
01:05:43.560 was no
01:05:43.820 excitement
01:05:44.060 about Hillary
01:05:44.460 there was
01:05:44.720 an idea
01:05:44.960 that she
01:05:45.200 was basically
01:05:45.580 owed it
01:05:45.960 and Obama
01:05:47.360 was the
01:05:47.740 fresh new
01:05:48.120 thing
01:05:48.400 who was
01:05:48.660 going to
01:05:48.960 change
01:05:49.300 the phase
01:05:49.840 right now
01:05:51.080 there is a
01:05:51.600 feeling that
01:05:51.940 Trump owes
01:05:52.260 it but he
01:05:52.580 also has
01:05:53.080 the excitement
01:05:53.500 of the base
01:05:53.820 behind him
01:05:54.240 and DeSantis
01:05:55.980 does not have
01:05:56.540 that yet
01:05:56.920 and the only
01:05:57.560 way to generate
01:05:58.040 that is
01:05:58.300 oppositionality
01:05:58.980 that's just
01:05:59.880 the dynamic
01:06:00.280 of the moment
01:06:00.680 and so
01:06:01.060 the issue
01:06:02.580 that I see
01:06:02.880 with the DeSantis
01:06:03.320 campaign
01:06:03.700 is that
01:06:04.440 every week
01:06:04.920 or so
01:06:05.140 they're rolling
01:06:05.540 out
01:06:05.740 like yesterday
01:06:06.540 he rolled
01:06:06.860 out an
01:06:07.060 economic plan
01:06:07.660 or something
01:06:08.000 and they
01:06:08.820 treat this
01:06:09.260 as though
01:06:09.540 this is
01:06:09.880 some sort
01:06:10.400 of political
01:06:11.260 point in his
01:06:11.720 favor
01:06:11.980 well it reminds
01:06:12.800 me more
01:06:13.000 of Elizabeth Warren
01:06:13.580 than anything
01:06:13.980 else
01:06:14.220 right
01:06:14.380 like every
01:06:14.780 two seconds
01:06:15.520 we're getting
01:06:15.880 a new plan
01:06:16.420 no one cares
01:06:17.860 about Ron DeSantis
01:06:18.520 economic plan
01:06:19.240 what they care
01:06:19.640 about is
01:06:19.920 can he punch
01:06:20.600 the left
01:06:20.920 directly where
01:06:21.440 it counts
01:06:21.760 because that's
01:06:22.380 the feeling
01:06:22.660 about Trump
01:06:23.320 rightly or
01:06:23.940 wrongly
01:06:24.180 I think
01:06:24.460 wrongly
01:06:24.760 I think
01:06:24.920 Trump punches
01:06:25.320 in every
01:06:25.580 direction
01:06:25.880 and sometimes
01:06:26.580 he punches
01:06:26.980 the left
01:06:27.500 directly in the
01:06:27.980 jaw
01:06:28.100 and sometimes
01:06:28.400 he punches
01:06:28.720 himself
01:06:29.000 directly in the
01:06:29.500 nuts
01:06:29.680 I think
01:06:30.120 it's like
01:06:30.400 it just
01:06:31.220 depends on
01:06:31.540 the day
01:06:31.800 is that
01:06:33.160 better than
01:06:33.460 people who
01:06:33.760 aren't
01:06:33.880 punching at
01:06:34.200 all
01:06:34.300 sure
01:06:34.480 because
01:06:34.660 sometimes
01:06:34.940 the left
01:06:35.140 gets
01:06:35.280 punched
01:06:35.500 in the
01:06:35.700 jaw
01:06:35.880 but it
01:06:36.300 also means
01:06:36.600 he punches
01:06:36.840 himself
01:06:37.040 in the
01:06:37.220 nuts
01:06:37.340 a lot
01:06:37.600 so what
01:06:38.380 I prefer
01:06:38.700 is somebody
01:06:38.960 who punches
01:06:39.320 the left
01:06:39.600 consistently
01:06:40.080 the problem
01:06:40.700 with DeSantis
01:06:41.120 campaign so
01:06:41.780 far
01:06:42.000 is that
01:06:43.060 for a brief
01:06:43.720 moment in
01:06:44.180 time
01:06:44.460 right after
01:06:45.040 the interim
01:06:45.280 election
01:06:45.640 there was a
01:06:46.200 feeling like
01:06:46.620 DeSantis
01:06:47.000 was a
01:06:47.440 weaponized
01:06:47.860 version of
01:06:48.340 Trump
01:06:48.600 who would
01:06:49.020 just go
01:06:49.320 right at
01:06:49.780 the left
01:06:50.120 and he
01:06:50.660 would shed
01:06:51.580 the possibility
01:06:52.400 that Trump
01:06:53.500 was going to
01:06:54.960 lose to
01:06:55.320 Biden
01:06:55.580 and he's
01:06:56.540 been hampered
01:06:56.940 by effectively
01:06:57.720 three factors
01:06:58.440 factor number
01:06:59.240 one is the
01:07:00.080 fact that
01:07:00.740 Trump sucks
01:07:01.980 all the air
01:07:02.800 out of the
01:07:03.140 room and that
01:07:03.700 that is a
01:07:04.640 real phenomenon
01:07:05.340 I mean
01:07:05.560 Trump sucks
01:07:05.980 all the air
01:07:06.360 out of the
01:07:06.580 room and
01:07:07.380 it's really
01:07:08.960 four factors
01:07:09.360 that's factor
01:07:09.800 number one
01:07:10.040 Trump's
01:07:10.260 factor number
01:07:11.380 two
01:07:11.620 Biden's
01:07:12.280 low poll
01:07:12.740 numbers are
01:07:13.120 really hurting
01:07:13.680 DeSantis
01:07:14.000 because his
01:07:15.020 electability
01:07:15.580 argument was
01:07:16.400 a very solid
01:07:16.820 argument in
01:07:17.440 January of
01:07:17.840 2023 and
01:07:18.980 it's not
01:07:19.220 nearly a solid
01:07:19.760 argument when
01:07:20.240 Joe Biden
01:07:20.520 is running
01:07:20.840 in the low
01:07:21.120 40s and
01:07:21.780 is running
01:07:22.080 directly even
01:07:23.000 with Donald
01:07:23.720 Trump and
01:07:24.140 in national
01:07:24.500 polling DeSantis
01:07:25.340 isn't blowing
01:07:25.940 Biden out
01:07:26.600 because the
01:07:27.240 electability
01:07:27.620 argument doesn't
01:07:28.140 exist by the
01:07:28.560 polling data
01:07:28.940 it doesn't
01:07:29.800 I think
01:07:30.300 that's false
01:07:31.920 but I think
01:07:32.720 it's not the
01:07:33.200 way people
01:07:33.520 vote
01:07:33.720 third his
01:07:37.020 main point
01:07:38.160 in terms of
01:07:38.740 politics of
01:07:39.780 differentiation
01:07:40.180 from everybody
01:07:40.760 else was
01:07:41.040 COVID no one
01:07:42.180 wants to hear
01:07:42.580 the word
01:07:42.800 COVID ever
01:07:43.220 again for
01:07:43.540 the rest
01:07:43.740 of their
01:07:43.920 life and
01:07:44.620 the DeSantis
01:07:45.060 campaign I
01:07:45.580 know has
01:07:45.960 internal polling
01:07:46.560 numbers showing
01:07:46.980 this when he
01:07:47.660 mentions COVID
01:07:48.160 people turn
01:07:48.540 off the TV
01:07:48.980 really because
01:07:49.820 yeah for the
01:07:50.580 same reason
01:07:50.920 that we did
01:07:51.420 this after the
01:07:51.940 19 1920
01:07:53.400 influenza right
01:07:54.460 when that
01:07:54.900 happened everybody
01:07:56.060 just said I
01:07:56.760 don't want to
01:07:57.040 talk about this
01:07:57.420 anymore it was a
01:07:57.960 terrible time we
01:07:58.540 didn't like the
01:07:58.920 lockdowns we want
01:07:59.560 to move beyond
01:07:59.960 that we don't want
01:08:00.600 to think about it
01:08:01.000 do you want to
01:08:01.300 think about the
01:08:02.720 thing about it
01:08:03.100 it's negative
01:08:03.480 and it's nasty
01:08:04.120 and it's kind
01:08:04.600 of like just
01:08:05.400 yeah and who
01:08:06.380 wants to think
01:08:07.020 about that so
01:08:07.880 like people don't
01:08:08.840 want to hear about
01:08:09.300 COVID and when he
01:08:09.820 mentions Fauci even
01:08:10.940 Fauci who the
01:08:11.620 right hates they
01:08:12.760 don't hate him
01:08:13.000 enough that we
01:08:13.340 want to think
01:08:13.600 about COVID when
01:08:14.680 people say
01:08:15.020 Fauci I mean I
01:08:15.640 can tell by the
01:08:16.080 traffic on the
01:08:16.500 site if we put
01:08:17.020 Fauci articles on
01:08:17.800 the site nobody
01:08:18.980 cares so that
01:08:19.980 that's that's
01:08:20.500 point number three
01:08:21.040 and point number
01:08:21.660 four is that he
01:08:22.240 has basically run a
01:08:23.180 campaign on the
01:08:23.720 basis of his
01:08:24.820 record and his
01:08:25.460 policies you can't
01:08:26.740 run that campaign
01:08:27.460 against Donald
01:08:27.980 Trump everybody
01:08:28.520 tried that in
01:08:29.200 2016 and it
01:08:30.000 failed the only way
01:08:31.000 to run a campaign
01:08:31.560 against Donald
01:08:32.000 Trump is to
01:08:32.440 generate enough
01:08:33.460 excitement based on
01:08:34.540 your oppositionality
01:08:35.340 to the left and
01:08:35.820 so he spent the
01:08:36.300 first part of his
01:08:36.840 campaign not doing
01:08:37.400 any unfriendly
01:08:38.220 interviews knowing
01:08:39.320 they were going to
01:08:39.720 sandbag him because
01:08:40.360 they were but the
01:08:41.760 reality is the reason
01:08:42.520 why DeSantis was
01:08:43.020 popular was not
01:08:43.940 just his COVID
01:08:44.500 policies Brian
01:08:45.120 Kemp pursued the
01:08:45.720 same exact COVID
01:08:46.240 policies the reason
01:08:47.200 DeSantis became a
01:08:47.780 national figure is
01:08:48.380 because the media
01:08:48.800 made him the enemy
01:08:49.640 they decided that
01:08:50.640 Andrew Cuomo was the
01:08:51.640 greatest governor
01:08:52.020 of the world and
01:08:52.580 Ron DeSantis was
01:08:53.300 Ron DeSantis and
01:08:54.480 so he started
01:08:54.940 punching back in the
01:08:55.660 media and that's
01:08:56.500 when false
01:08:57.040 narrative right
01:08:58.000 and correct and
01:08:59.220 that is when he
01:08:59.720 started to climb and
01:09:00.860 suddenly became sort
01:09:01.500 of the new face the
01:09:02.440 fresh face of the
01:09:02.940 Republican Party the
01:09:03.920 only way to recapture
01:09:04.740 that magic is to go
01:09:05.660 into dark spaces and
01:09:06.860 fight monsters right he
01:09:07.800 needs to go he needs
01:09:08.600 to go into he needs
01:09:09.500 to go on George
01:09:09.900 Stephanopoulos' show he
01:09:11.220 needs to wait until
01:09:11.780 George Stephanopoulos
01:09:12.520 asks him about book
01:09:13.620 bans in Florida and
01:09:14.600 then he needs to wreck
01:09:15.240 him yeah right that
01:09:16.260 that's what he
01:09:16.620 actually needs to do
01:09:17.220 and he's not going to
01:09:17.660 do that in the
01:09:17.960 interview with Brett
01:09:18.340 Baer as much as I
01:09:19.340 like that interview or
01:09:20.120 with Jake Tapper or
01:09:20.880 with Megyn Kelly when I
01:09:22.100 say he's turned a
01:09:23.140 corner I mean
01:09:24.120 literally he's turned a
01:09:25.180 corner he hasn't
01:09:25.740 gone down the road yet
01:09:26.720 and I think that the
01:09:29.720 setup for doing exactly
01:09:31.000 what you're talking
01:09:31.500 about and I think
01:09:32.300 you're absolutely right
01:09:33.360 about this he has to
01:09:34.340 go into the left and
01:09:36.220 talk to them because
01:09:37.280 that's what we want to
01:09:38.020 see him do so that
01:09:38.840 leaves the question of
01:09:39.540 what how does he
01:09:41.040 handle Trump what is
01:09:42.240 what is it what is
01:09:43.500 his approach to Trump
01:09:44.240 now I personally think
01:09:45.620 that there was that a
01:09:47.740 few weeks ago there
01:09:48.460 was the video that
01:09:49.400 the DeSantis camp put
01:09:51.600 out attacking Trump
01:09:53.000 for kowtowing to the
01:09:54.140 LGBT cult and it was
01:09:56.300 like roundly condemned
01:09:57.740 by the left and even
01:09:58.640 people in the Trump
01:09:59.280 camp said that he's
01:09:59.720 anti-gay I personally
01:10:02.560 think that's when
01:10:03.780 going after Trump
01:10:04.420 that's exactly what
01:10:05.140 he needs to be doing
01:10:05.760 I agree that the fact
01:10:08.360 that Trump didn't
01:10:08.840 fire Fauci should matter
01:10:10.320 a lot it doesn't
01:10:11.640 though for but the
01:10:12.680 but painting Trump
01:10:14.760 and pointing out that
01:10:16.000 okay this guy is to
01:10:16.820 the left of me but
01:10:17.860 that was cultural
01:10:18.500 issues that was the
01:10:19.440 Cruz strategy in 2016
01:10:20.920 was hey Trump is
01:10:22.320 squishy on some of the
01:10:23.480 LGBT issues and I'm
01:10:25.240 going to be the
01:10:25.620 consistent cultural
01:10:26.780 conservative and he
01:10:27.780 did it very effectively
01:10:28.740 came in number two
01:10:30.640 now you might say he
01:10:31.640 only came in number two
01:10:32.440 because you know
01:10:33.340 Marco Rubio didn't
01:10:34.520 drop out before Florida
01:10:35.500 and because you know
01:10:36.600 that stuff also matters
01:10:37.780 now much more than it
01:10:38.880 did in 2016
01:10:39.460 that's true
01:10:39.880 nobody was talking
01:10:40.660 in 2016 the
01:10:41.880 conservatives given up
01:10:42.620 on all LGBT trans
01:10:43.800 wasn't a discussion
01:10:44.520 among most
01:10:45.660 now it really matters
01:10:47.280 now people understand
01:10:48.100 that the pride flag is
01:10:49.940 they understand what it
01:10:50.860 is and it represents
01:10:51.600 what it does
01:10:51.920 also Cruz did something
01:10:53.600 else which was my
01:10:54.340 good friend Donald
01:10:55.000 and that was a big
01:10:56.920 mistake that he was
01:10:58.120 he basically bet that
01:10:59.680 Trump would eat him
01:11:00.520 last and I think
01:11:01.700 that's exactly
01:11:02.500 he's incredibly
01:11:02.940 deferential
01:11:03.420 and I love Cruz
01:11:06.440 Cruz is like politically
01:11:07.520 my spirit animal but he
01:11:08.760 has a problem with
01:11:09.420 women you know not
01:11:10.680 not in his personal
01:11:11.580 life but as voters
01:11:12.500 he's pretty fun
01:11:13.220 yeah no as voters
01:11:14.400 they don't like him
01:11:15.240 I think that the only
01:11:17.240 there's two possible
01:11:19.060 strategies for
01:11:19.620 to stand
01:11:19.820 I can see him
01:11:20.200 choosing either one
01:11:20.760 one strategy is that
01:11:22.080 he basically says
01:11:23.680 I'm not running
01:11:24.900 against Trump as
01:11:26.400 much as I'm out
01:11:27.220 I'm outpacing him
01:11:28.900 right because the
01:11:30.300 the problem with
01:11:30.880 Trump is that yeah
01:11:31.880 like basically he
01:11:33.340 goes into the let's
01:11:34.060 say he does the
01:11:34.600 things we're talking
01:11:35.160 about he goes and
01:11:35.560 he punches the left
01:11:36.200 and he does it
01:11:36.580 effectively and then
01:11:37.180 he says listen I
01:11:37.600 just do this better
01:11:38.060 than Trump does
01:11:38.600 right like I'm doing
01:11:40.100 this you can see
01:11:40.680 they're afraid of me
01:11:41.200 you can see what
01:11:41.700 they're doing and you
01:11:42.300 start building momentum
01:11:43.020 that way and
01:11:43.920 suddenly he becomes
01:11:44.660 the DeSantis of
01:11:45.500 2020 during the
01:11:46.680 pandemic as opposed
01:11:47.500 to the DeSantis of
01:11:48.040 2023 that that's
01:11:49.480 that's strategy number
01:11:50.200 one I think it's
01:11:50.820 probably the best
01:11:51.440 strategy because what
01:11:52.580 the data show are
01:11:53.340 that attacks on
01:11:53.880 Trump backfire on
01:11:54.460 everybody who does
01:11:55.000 them in the
01:11:55.280 Republican Party
01:11:55.820 yes every single
01:11:56.640 attack not it
01:11:57.320 doesn't matter what
01:11:57.800 they are
01:11:57.980 policy attacks any
01:12:00.380 attack any attack on
01:12:01.580 Trump because again
01:12:02.480 he's got that kind of
01:12:03.440 id connection with the
01:12:04.460 base Teflon Don baby
01:12:05.680 with the base for sure
01:12:07.240 not with the American
01:12:08.100 public which is a
01:12:08.780 problem for a general
01:12:09.420 right in order to be
01:12:10.400 Teflon Ron you have
01:12:11.300 to win you know
01:12:12.180 49 states in order to
01:12:13.580 be Teflon Don you have
01:12:14.420 to lose an election and
01:12:15.360 then lose a midterm
01:12:15.960 election and then lose
01:12:16.680 several special elections
01:12:17.680 they're like Teflon I'm
01:12:19.300 only gonna call you
01:12:19.760 Teflon if you actually
01:12:20.700 you know number one
01:12:22.280 don't go to jail and
01:12:22.860 number two become
01:12:23.360 president again if he
01:12:24.120 becomes president again
01:12:24.860 then he truly is
01:12:25.540 Teflon if you go to
01:12:26.200 jail that's a mark in
01:12:27.160 your favor as far as I'm
01:12:28.620 the real narrative as far as
01:12:30.580 I'm concerned the actual
01:12:31.420 true narrative is that
01:12:32.940 Trump was a godsend that
01:12:34.500 turned the Republican
01:12:35.540 party around that's
01:12:36.560 focused it on the things
01:12:37.540 that need focusing about
01:12:38.340 he opened the road to a
01:12:40.280 conservative future I
01:12:41.380 really do believe this it
01:12:43.160 is DeSantis who is more
01:12:44.660 equipped to go down that
01:12:45.580 road it's a hard argument
01:12:46.800 to make because it's
01:12:47.640 essentially saying I'm the
01:12:48.620 better Trump and nobody
01:12:49.780 is the better Trump Trump
01:12:50.680 is he's also gonna have
01:12:51.480 to at some point say that
01:12:52.160 Trump lost and this is no
01:12:54.020 I think this is a real
01:12:55.040 thing that's cannot say
01:12:56.320 that you are more
01:12:56.940 electable than the guy
01:12:57.840 if the base thinks he
01:12:59.180 won yeah that's not a
01:13:00.280 possible argument there's
01:13:00.900 this other problem which
01:13:01.820 is we keep trying to
01:13:03.000 evaluate Trump's candidacy
01:13:04.160 as though it were some
01:13:04.860 normal year this is the
01:13:06.380 first time since 1888
01:13:08.000 that a president has run
01:13:09.240 for a non-consecutive
01:13:10.200 second term yeah so he is
01:13:11.780 running for all intents and
01:13:13.660 purposes as the incumbent
01:13:15.300 which is why a lot of the
01:13:16.600 strategies that were
01:13:17.400 intended to quash him have
01:13:19.020 not worked so then in
01:13:20.480 terms of bringing the
01:13:21.200 fight to the left there's I
01:13:23.100 had been long opposed to
01:13:25.720 impeachment without a
01:13:27.100 strong legal foundation of
01:13:28.800 of Biden even though they
01:13:30.180 impeached Trump for you
01:13:31.340 know waking up too early
01:13:32.340 where are you now the GOP
01:13:35.420 has started to indicate that
01:13:37.600 they might impeach him
01:13:38.880 roundtable what are we are
01:13:41.040 we pro impeachment now I'm
01:13:42.680 with Kevin McCarthy I think a
01:13:44.180 an impeachment inquiry is the
01:13:46.140 way to go and so I think
01:13:47.760 they need to go a little
01:13:48.320 further down the road before
01:13:49.060 the inquiry opens because
01:13:49.920 once you have the inquiry
01:13:50.680 then there has to be a
01:13:51.400 conclusion okay right but I
01:13:54.140 know I think we can't make
01:13:55.560 the promise without giving
01:13:56.200 the guarantee no but I
01:13:57.060 think we're there I think
01:13:57.760 we are in terms of well I
01:13:59.640 see I see your point
01:14:00.760 politically if it if it
01:14:01.620 added actual right so if it
01:14:02.760 added actual legal power
01:14:04.340 yeah then sure it doesn't
01:14:06.160 add actual legal power
01:14:06.940 right then declaring an
01:14:09.040 impeachment inquiry doesn't
01:14:10.020 add like additional subpoena
01:14:11.000 power it's like they have
01:14:11.940 additional compulsory power
01:14:13.060 no but I still I still
01:14:14.980 think it depends on if you
01:14:15.760 are willing to don't you
01:14:17.940 know don't pull the trigger
01:14:19.140 unless you're willing to
01:14:19.720 see where the bullet goes
01:14:20.320 yeah and so I do think
01:14:21.860 this thing with this bribe you
01:14:23.660 know I like maybe I'm the
01:14:25.260 last president in America
01:14:26.100 thinks it's not a good
01:14:26.860 thing that the vice
01:14:27.540 president should be bribed
01:14:28.360 for five oh no no I think
01:14:29.300 I think I think listen I
01:14:31.500 think it's a very real
01:14:32.100 thing and I think it is
01:14:32.900 absolutely moving in that
01:14:33.940 direction I think we're
01:14:34.600 about two steps away okay
01:14:35.720 right so I I'm not saying
01:14:37.160 that they shouldn't do it
01:14:38.080 yeah I'm just saying that
01:14:39.140 I think at this point it
01:14:40.320 looks a little bit eager
01:14:41.180 and premature and so they
01:14:43.000 should you know they should
01:14:44.520 actually try to subpoena the
01:14:45.900 president I think they
01:14:46.680 should actually there are
01:14:47.500 like a few things they need
01:14:48.260 to do they should they
01:14:48.820 should actually try to
01:14:50.020 subpoena the members of the
01:14:51.740 DOJ who tried to sign the
01:14:53.080 Hunter Biden sweetheart
01:14:53.720 plea agreement I think we
01:14:55.120 should see the Devin
01:14:56.240 Archer transcript first
01:14:57.640 which I totally agree
01:14:58.640 see this is another thing
01:14:59.340 right yeah like I when
01:15:00.280 the left says okay so
01:15:01.160 show us the transcript I'm
01:15:02.000 there yeah that's fine with
01:15:03.000 me I mean I'm for I'm
01:15:04.260 for full transparency
01:15:04.920 let's see what he said
01:15:06.020 yeah Matt you pro
01:15:07.180 impeachment oh absolutely
01:15:08.300 I have been from the
01:15:09.080 beginning yeah from day
01:15:10.780 one yeah there's something
01:15:13.080 else I do want to get to
01:15:14.160 on which we'll probably
01:15:15.600 have to get more into it
01:15:16.860 for the member segment so
01:15:18.520 for the hoi floi out
01:15:19.340 there watching on YouTube
01:15:20.140 go on over dailywire.com
01:15:21.960 you become a member
01:15:22.880 Ben you have a new
01:15:23.700 show out which is where
01:15:25.700 you just do a very Ben
01:15:27.040 like thing and you just
01:15:28.020 dispel all feelings
01:15:29.120 whatsoever and just go
01:15:30.100 down this litany of facts
01:15:31.660 and it's got very cool
01:15:32.860 graphics about it yeah
01:15:33.720 and there's a picture of
01:15:34.180 Neen's sunglasses it's
01:15:35.000 very just like Joe
01:15:35.920 Biden there's strong
01:15:36.700 energy going on I would
01:15:38.020 say in that picture so
01:15:39.720 in it you're you're going
01:15:40.820 after something that is
01:15:41.900 not often talked about
01:15:43.280 and it's it everyone
01:15:44.980 knows about ESG or
01:15:46.200 maybe you've at least
01:15:46.800 heard that that
01:15:47.700 initialism the one that
01:15:49.220 a lot of people don't
01:15:49.820 know about is GARM
01:15:50.720 the global alliance for
01:15:52.060 responsible media which
01:15:53.540 is another one of these
01:15:54.360 just bloated multinational
01:15:56.040 corporatist kind of
01:15:57.000 globalist awful things
01:15:58.040 and and you went in and
01:15:59.560 broke it down because we
01:16:00.420 got some information that
01:16:01.560 that Facebook was
01:16:03.340 colluding with the Biden
01:16:04.660 administration to really
01:16:05.980 clamp down not just on
01:16:07.480 misinformation on
01:16:08.960 memes and GARM is is
01:16:13.080 like a big figure in the
01:16:14.360 room here here's just a
01:16:15.300 little clip from the new
01:16:16.100 show
01:16:16.300 GARM is a cross-industry
01:16:25.420 alliance that brings these
01:16:26.880 mega corporations the
01:16:27.920 advertisers together with
01:16:29.580 big tech companies like
01:16:30.640 Meta who owns Facebook and
01:16:32.100 Instagram Google owned
01:16:33.540 YouTube the CCP's TikTok
01:16:35.140 and even Snapchat and
01:16:36.800 Pinterest this unholy
01:16:38.180 alliance created something
01:16:39.240 they call the brand safety
01:16:40.920 floor and suitability
01:16:42.060 framework think of brand
01:16:43.500 safety as a dog whistle for
01:16:44.860 censorship they say it
01:16:46.180 themselves the brand safety
01:16:47.620 floor means quote content
01:16:49.180 not appropriate for any
01:16:50.540 advertising support in other
01:16:52.300 words if you publish content
01:16:54.060 that violates these
01:16:55.100 guidelines you will be
01:16:56.660 blacklisted from 90% of the
01:16:58.880 advertising revenue in the
01:17:00.240 marketplace if you think
01:17:01.600 this is only something big
01:17:02.800 news corporations have to
01:17:03.820 contend with think again
01:17:05.100 even the content you consume
01:17:06.640 from independent content
01:17:07.660 creators on social media
01:17:08.760 platforms like the one on
01:17:10.100 which you're watching this
01:17:10.780 video is subject to these
01:17:12.440 globalist powers that be so
01:17:14.460 for example my friend Matt
01:17:15.860 Walsh he was demonetized on
01:17:17.580 YouTube why well because he
01:17:19.360 says that men are not women
01:17:21.000 the same was true on TikTok
01:17:22.600 another GARM member where
01:17:23.940 Daily Wire hosts are
01:17:24.840 routinely hit with content
01:17:26.120 strikes and various bands
01:17:27.100 for saying things like men are
01:17:28.780 not women or for example if
01:17:30.260 you question the accepted
01:17:31.380 wisdom on COVID so for
01:17:32.960 example let's say you say
01:17:33.980 that vaccines not great for
01:17:35.380 kids no evidence kids need
01:17:36.820 them kids aren't dying from
01:17:38.160 COVID if you say any of those
01:17:39.720 things GARM WF WFA they will
01:17:42.380 crack down on you with
01:17:43.360 alacrity
01:17:43.800 why aren't you wearing those
01:17:51.340 glasses now that looks great
01:17:52.540 right I really like the
01:17:54.060 glasses
01:17:54.200 yeah no it's it's it's it's a
01:17:57.260 great looking series the
01:17:58.520 production team does a really
01:17:59.660 amazing job in terms of
01:18:01.240 inserting the graphics that
01:18:02.220 are necessary to understand
01:18:03.260 really complex sets of facts
01:18:05.040 the thing that our first our
01:18:06.260 first video in which is out
01:18:07.860 now right which is out right
01:18:08.660 now over on YouTube is is
01:18:10.360 that it's breaking down what
01:18:11.780 is a very complex issue and
01:18:13.080 it does require visual aids
01:18:14.340 to really understand all
01:18:15.320 this because this is how the
01:18:16.640 left hides the ball right in
01:18:17.660 the same way that if you
01:18:18.300 really want to understand you
01:18:19.280 know how the money is moving
01:18:20.040 with Hunter Biden and his
01:18:20.700 friends you kind of need a
01:18:21.380 flow chart well that that's
01:18:22.600 that's kind of what facts is
01:18:23.480 it's a visual flow chart that's
01:18:24.720 going to explain really
01:18:25.600 complex issues in ways that
01:18:27.620 you can understand and
01:18:28.620 encapsulate and send your
01:18:29.480 friends so the next time
01:18:30.480 somebody asks you is
01:18:31.760 censorship happening on
01:18:32.800 YouTube and why you just
01:18:34.080 send them the video and
01:18:35.160 that answers all the
01:18:35.780 questions for them in a
01:18:36.600 visually I think exciting
01:18:37.680 way so this is one of
01:18:38.600 these new bombshells that
01:18:39.780 no one's talking about and
01:18:40.740 I think the left is trying
01:18:41.960 to hide it the right is
01:18:43.220 just so demoralized that we
01:18:44.480 think none of this matters
01:18:45.280 but these files came out
01:18:46.980 showing that Facebook was
01:18:49.120 suppressing conservatives we
01:18:50.280 all know that but they were
01:18:51.440 they were suppressing
01:18:52.180 conservatives because the
01:18:54.260 Biden administration was
01:18:55.120 saying hey that lab leak
01:18:56.300 theory about Wuhan yeah you
01:18:58.380 got to suppress that hey
01:18:59.440 any memes memes joking about
01:19:03.200 COVID you got to suppress
01:19:04.820 those too and Facebook
01:19:05.960 complied and these are
01:19:06.940 clear first amendment
01:19:07.520 violations which is why a
01:19:09.040 judge has already ruled that
01:19:09.940 the Biden administration is
01:19:10.820 not really allowed to reach
01:19:11.720 out to the any of the
01:19:12.500 social media networks and
01:19:13.360 tell them to take things
01:19:14.000 down anymore they're saying
01:19:14.920 that that is effectively
01:19:16.080 speaking a first amendment
01:19:16.900 violation because it
01:19:17.940 absolutely is if the if the
01:19:19.540 federal government invades
01:19:20.680 your home and tells you
01:19:21.800 that you have to censor your
01:19:22.980 friend that's a first
01:19:24.160 amendment violation even if
01:19:25.280 you're the one who's
01:19:25.740 technically doing the
01:19:26.400 censoring of your friend
01:19:27.060 and so that's that's really
01:19:28.940 where we are right now it's
01:19:30.460 it's an incredibly dangerous
01:19:31.240 place I mean you know how bad
01:19:32.040 the censorship is when even
01:19:33.380 members of the internal team
01:19:34.460 at Facebook were like I'm
01:19:36.100 not sure that we should do
01:19:37.100 this like I think this is a
01:19:38.060 kind of and that was
01:19:38.740 actually some of the
01:19:39.200 feedback they're like are we
01:19:40.340 going to censor memes now is
01:19:41.520 that like really a thing that
01:19:42.380 we're going to do I mean
01:19:43.920 that that's that's how
01:19:44.600 strong one of the things that
01:19:45.800 we don't understand people
01:19:46.780 who are in this business
01:19:47.880 don't understand we are
01:19:49.820 protected by the first
01:19:50.720 amendment in ways that
01:19:51.800 ordinary people are not we
01:19:53.600 can go out and say things
01:19:54.500 and we can sort of parade the
01:19:55.600 fact that you know we're not
01:19:57.060 we don't care for canceled
01:19:58.220 come on come and get us and
01:19:59.600 all this stuff and we can
01:20:00.380 sort of strut around and be
01:20:01.920 brave because we are
01:20:02.900 protected by the first
01:20:03.720 amendment a guy who's in an
01:20:05.520 insurance company you know
01:20:06.660 normal you know white collar
01:20:08.280 to blue collar job who has
01:20:09.660 to go into HR and sign a
01:20:11.820 document saying men can't
01:20:13.200 become he has no protection
01:20:14.400 whatsoever so they're already
01:20:15.880 living in the censorship world
01:20:17.400 and when you reveal these
01:20:18.840 things which are shocking to
01:20:20.500 someone like me beyond my
01:20:22.280 ability to express they're
01:20:23.780 not shocked at all because
01:20:24.840 they're already living in that
01:20:25.920 world and you have to make
01:20:27.760 them understand that they're
01:20:29.340 going to have to fight back
01:20:30.240 they're going to have to the
01:20:30.940 little guy is going to have to
01:20:31.920 fight back and we're going to
01:20:32.940 have to give them some kind
01:20:34.300 of cover because they're
01:20:35.220 going to need legal help
01:20:36.900 they're going to need
01:20:37.640 organizational help that an
01:20:39.900 ordinary single guy does not
01:20:41.900 have he's got to feed his
01:20:43.060 family you know he's got to
01:20:44.440 keep his job they're in a lot
01:20:46.840 more danger than we are and
01:20:48.000 don't forget I mean this was
01:20:49.160 the way the Biden
01:20:49.820 administration pushed the
01:20:50.840 vaccine mandate yeah they
01:20:52.380 didn't push it right away it
01:20:54.240 wasn't here's the vaccine
01:20:55.120 okay you all have to take it
01:20:56.020 they waited until enough
01:20:57.720 people had voluntarily taken
01:20:59.200 it that they had a
01:21:00.100 significant enough chunk of
01:21:01.300 the people that they didn't
01:21:02.500 think the pushback would be
01:21:03.680 so great once they said okay
01:21:04.820 the rest of you have to do
01:21:05.780 it and so you're totally
01:21:06.800 right we get we all get
01:21:08.800 dinged on the big tech
01:21:09.960 platforms frequently but we
01:21:13.040 don't get dinged as much as
01:21:14.520 ordinary people who can't
01:21:15.880 make a big fuss about it
01:21:16.840 that's right and so you know
01:21:18.120 they always say the supreme
01:21:19.800 court follows the the poll
01:21:21.000 numbers the supreme court
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